chained_bear commented on the word mackerel-snapper I get the fish-eater thing, but I don't know why non-Catholics wouldn't want mackerel--evidenced by the use of the term in a disparaging phrase. (Or wouldn't want snapper, for that matter.)
Psalm 1 is the first of the Psalms in the Hebrew Bible. Like many of the psalms, it contrasts the  righteous  person (tzadik ×¦×××§) to the wicked or ungodly (rasha` ×¨×©×¢) or the  sinner  (chatta' ×××).
Origins of the Ten Days of Repentance Maimonides' (1135â1204) Laws of Repentance in his Mishneh Torah is one of the most authoritative sources for the name and function of these days, but he draws on earlier sources: