 In Chullin 112b it discusses some of the halachas regarding a davar charif. A radish is sharp -- as is a beet. They absorb the taste from the knife. If the meat is basar the cut radish will become basar and you will not be
able to eat it with dairy (kutach in the language of the Gemara).
Squash, says the Gemara is sweet. As such, it doesn't absorb the taste from the knife.
On Rosh Hashana we wish each other a sweet year. Rosh Hashana is Yom HaDin. The year is being shaped, or "cut". The nature of gevurah is that is gives form to something that had previous not had a definitive shape. This is why women are gevurah. They form the child, to give but one example.
When the knife cuts, it shapes. But Hashem's guidance (the cutting) does not have impart a "bad taste".
From this you see, if someone is sweet they do not absorb the taste from the knife. Meaning to say, they accept G-d's hand and guidance and do not absorb negativity from events.
But we are all human beings with emotions. So, the Gemara adds that the sweet squash still has to have the residue scraped off it, and then it can be eaten with milk. In other words, even when life cuts, one still has to shake it off. And allow themselves and others the space to do the same.
There is yet a higher level. The Gemara goes on to discuss the turnip! The turnip is SO sweet that it actually IMPARTS a sweet taste to the knife! So much so, that if you now use the turnip knife to cut a beet (which is sharp) the beat will NOT absorb the taste from the meat knife -- only the taste of the sweet turnip!
This means, if "bad" news comes down, and a person raises themselves to being on the the level of the sweetness of the turnip -- then other people (even "beet" people who are sour/sharp) will only experience sweetness and not the taste from the knife.
How does one become sweet? Through Torah. As it says in Psalm 19 Your Torah is "sweeter than honey".
May we all be blessed to live sweet lives and sweet years and allow the whole world to taste the sweetness of Hashem.
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