This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2008) - ISBN: 9780743291484