 It is owing to these views that the 1st of Tishri became-the Day of Judgment in the Jewish liturgy.Not yet recognized as such in the time of Josephus and Philo, this season of repentance and penitential prayer removed from the Jew that gloom and dread of the Last Judgment Day so prevalent in Essene life and literature and gave to Jewish ethics its more practical, healthy character.In Catholic doctrine, divine judgment (Latin "judicium divinum"), as an imminent act of God, denotes the action of God's retributive justice by which the destiny of rational creatures is decided according to their merits and demerits.