Q: Why are evening and morning considered one day?

A: “And there was evening, and there was morning – one day.”

One day is one continuous being. Evening and morning are not separate moments strung together, not cause and effect – they are two expressions of the same presence. The text does not say evening caused morning or morning followed evening. It says they together form one day. They are unified, like breath in and breath out.

“The morning is like a child: new, open, present. It emerges without striving, without plan – it simply is, alive and uncalculated. The Hebrew word for evening is neshef (נשף), from the verb nashaf, meaning to exhale or blow. So the night is the exhale and the morning is the inhale, but neither causes the other. They are two movements of the same breath, two forms of being alive.

Time here does not flow according to logic or causality. It flows as presence itself – not a sequence of this-then-that, but an unfolding of being. Evening and night, morning and light: these are not opposites in tension but different faces of one ongoing existence.

The day is not about beginnings or endings. It is about being present, flowing, and alive – without calculation, without aim, simply existing as one whole.

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