If Yom Kippur were the only mitzvah in the Torah it would be sufficient for us to recognize the divinity of the Torah. Such an awesome day could not possibly have been created by human beings!
The sanctity of the day is so great that it eradicates all willful and inadvertent sins as long as the person desires that with all his heart. Even the sins from which we cannot imagine how we could possibly free ourselves are erased. If we believe that Hashem will save us from these sins and if we serve Him from the depths of our hearts then there can be no doubt that our teshuvah will be accepted!
Let’s not think that we are unable to reach repentance. Let’s not despair of teshuvah when we see that every year after Yom Kippur we lapse into sin once again.” (Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe Alei Shur vol. 1 p. 45)
Even if I do teshuvah for everything how can Hashem testify that I will never repeat my sins? Logically it seems that I will return to them. Of course I don’t want to but it would take an open miracle. So … why should I do teshuvah?”
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