We ashkenaz start selichot on a Sunday. Sunday is a day of the week. Usually we start events on a given day of a given month (e.g., rosh hodesh, rosh hashanna), or after a given number of days (e.g., we count 49 days to shavuot). Why, and by what logic, does the selichot custom differ from this usual approach to specifying a date?
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