881. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Concerning Rosh Hashanah [Jewish New Year’s Eve] and Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement], we should understand the meaning of the judgments and the Gevurot, why good days are called “days of judgments,” and why “a good day” and not “a weekday.”

“Judgment” is explained (in the Sulam [Ladder commentary on The Zohar], Emor, Item 193), that each year, Malchut returns to her beginning, as she was on the fourth day of the work of creation, meaning in the diminution of the moon, when the Hochma in the left line of Bina illuminated, and Hochma without Hassadim is called “judgment.”

This is regarded as “male judgments,” when there is an increase of abundance, and then there is fear that they will not receive it in the manner of reception, which is hell, which was created on the second day, as in “sin crouches at the door.”