888. Good Days

We should understand that although the Ten Penitentiary Days [a.k.a., Terrible Days], which are regarded as judgment, Gevura, and fear, and the whole world awakens to repent, for everyone is afraid of the day of judgment, why are they called “good days,” meaning days that are not regular days?

The reason is that Rosh Hashanah [beginning of the year] and Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] are regarded as “left,” meaning that then is a time of appearance of lights of Hochma. Rosh Hashanah is a returning of the situation to the time of the creation of the world, the fourth day in the work of creation, which is discerned as the “diminution of the moon.”