Everything we mentioned earlier about fasting/ tzedoko is with regards to achieving wholeness of atonement and polishing of the soul. Like the olah offering, these things are to appease Hashem and restore the closeness/willingness in the relationship.

T’shuva is returning to Hashem wholeheartedly.

In kabbalistic terminology, t’shuva means, toshuv hei, or returning the “hei.” In Hashem’s name, Havaye, there is the final or lower “hei” and the first or higher “hei.” Returning the lower “hei” is called “t’shuva tattoh,” and returning the higher “hei” is called “t’shuva ilo’oh.”

It says in the Zohar that t’shuva isn’t good enough for the sin associated with young men (which is a krisus u’misos); but that’s strange being that, “nothing stands in the way of t’shuva…”?

The answer is: t’shuva tattoh isn’t good enough to rectify the damage, but t’shuva ilo’oh is.

Before we’re able to understand this fully, the Alter Rebbe addresses the question of people being able to live to ripe old ages even though they are punishable by krisus u’misos, soul-cut-off and death.