What Fire Reveals — A Teaching for Tisha B’Av and the Nine Days

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the Nine Days and Tisha B’Av through the element of fire — and asks what fire actually does to us when we’re willing to stay with it.

Drawing on Elijah’s breakdown in the wilderness, the burning bush that wouldn’t be consumed, Michael Meade’s three layers of human life, and a stunning teaching from the Rambam’s Tisha B’Av prayer — this episode traces four movements of fire. What is burning. Staying with what burns. What burns away. And what becomes audible in the aftermath.

With fire You consumed it. With fire You will rebuild.

This is a teaching for anyone moving through the heat of this season — and anyone willing to ask what the fire might be revealing.

Ohmek Session dated July 21, 2026

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Shoftim and Elul: Who Stands at Your Inner Gate? — On Discernment, Surrender, and the Inner Prophet

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters Parshat Shoftim at the threshold of Elul — and finds inside it a map for the inner work of this season.The Torah opens with a deceptively ...

11 Aug 56min

Devarim: The Long Goodbye — Three Prophets, Three Eichas, One Sacred Question

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the book of Devarim — the long goodbye — and finds inside one word the full arc of a people, a leader, and a life.Moshe stands at the edge...

14 Juli 55min

Matot-Masei and the Three Weeks: Gestation, Grief, and the Stories We Tell in Between

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the Three Weeks — the 21 days of bein hametzarim — through a surprising teaching from Rebbe Nachman that changes how you see this season e...

7 Juli 59min

Pinchas and 17 Tammuz: Grief as Testimony — Four Women, Four Voices of Loss

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the threshold of Parshat Pinchas alongside the beginning of the Three Weeks — and asks what it means to grieve as testimony.Through four w...

30 Juni 54min

Chukat-Balak: The Hidden Conversation— Why the Pause Is Part of the Torah

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved explores the mysterious open space between the Torah portions of Korach and Chukat—a silence that stretches across thirty-eight years in the wild...

23 Juni 50min

Korach: Where Are You God? — The Sons Who Did Not Die, the Sheol, and the Sanctity of Unresolved Grief

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of Korach — and finds inside it not just a rebellion, but a lineage.The wound beneath Korach’s uprising was real. The argument w...

16 Juni 49min

Shelach: We Were Like Grasshoppers — A Kabbalistic Map for Meeting Complexity

In this episode of Underneath the Underneath, Yocheved enters the story of the spies — one of the most pivotal ruptures in the Torah — and asks: why did ten of the twelve collapse when they encountere...

9 Juni 52min