The shared center — held across the tradition
A day is the smallest honest unit.
An hour can be survived by holding your breath. A day has to be lived through — you get bored, and the boredom is the doorway.
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The dark day is kept sundown to sundown.
Borrowed shape, borrowed timing, and the Sabbath says so: it did not invent the week off, it joined it.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Emergencies are not an exception.
Contested inside the line: the founder holds that a day with an escape clause is not a day. Others keep a phone in a drawer, off, for the hospital.
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