We are at the precipice, at the cusp of a tremendous change in the world.

Let’s face it. If Satan were to play chess, his pieces would all seem to be in place and the chances of a worst case scenario, of those pieces wreaking havoc on the world, would seem very likely. Natural disasters, economic crisis, personal trauma and struggle in our lives… these only show us that Satan is playing his game pretty well today. But we don’t have to accept it.

We can say no to the worst case scenario and demand the best case scenario because we know that every single time there is a chance of a crazy amount of darkness coming upon the world, we also have an equal chance of revealing a crazy amount of Light.

We must make no mistake that the Light also has it’s pieces in place. Maybe we don’t always see them and that’s probably because the Creator is an even better player at the game, but we have to understand that the pieces are there waiting for us to play them.

This year, we have the tools. The potential Light that exists is greater than ever because it is relative to the amount of existing darkness. We will do whatever it takes this year. We will meet with whoever is in power and we will reveal the Light that is inside that darkness.

People are always asking me, “Why do you go to these places, these cities where there is so much violence, where there is war?” That’s why we go. Because there is so much darkness.

This year, starting right now, this very second, each of us have to make the same commitment in the war that wages within ourselves, between the soul and the ego. Everywhere there exists potential for darkness or selfishness, we will instead reveal Light through acts of unconditional love and sharing.

We must be willing to go through the depths of Hell to get to the garden of Eden.

A student approached me a couple of days ago at a book signing and said, “Sometimes I don’t know how to merit all this wisdom.”

Tell me about it. The wisdom I’ve been given, the lineage I was born into, I don’t know how to merit it either. Most of the time, I don’t even feel worthy of it.

But in this new beginning, we must all know that we are worthy. Despite anything we may have done or not done in our past, we are all worthy in the Creator’s eyes of the Light. Even in the story of the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve they were forgiven. It wasn’t that God didn’t forgive them, it was that they didn’t forgive themselves. Each and every one of us is a child of the Creator and we must feel worthy.

We can do anything, but it starts by knowing that we can.

To win the war against the ego, we must know that we can. We must know that we are all one, but can only be as one if we are partners – partners with each other and partners with the Creator.

Only this consciousness and this unity can reveal the Light that will, this year, finally remove chaos and suffering from this world forever.

Chag Sameach,

Yehuda