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p 151. Yom Kippur has the quality of returning a Jew to Hashem. Like a fruit tree in winter, sometimes during difficult periods in life our external kedusha (holiness) can die, but our inner kedusha is always alive. A person who rejects the bris (covenant) and the Torah does not get forgiveness on Yom Kippur. Hatzlacha (success) is connected to our attachment to Hashem. If Hashem would go by numbers, mankind is an investment with bad returns. Essentially, the philosophers could not accept that a person could reach G-dliness through physical acts. The Torah is the seder (order) of Hashem.