It makes me think of how things must be and have been in predominantly Jewish communities on the Sabbath. It is hard to rest when everyone else is out and about and doing, but when the community, everyone, is silent, resting, peaceful, it is much easier to unwind: nowhere to go, nothing to do.
Family: it works better in such conditions. We all need a rest from the ache of work, of worry. I can’t be the first to say this, but the Sabbath may well have been the key to the survival of Judaism, which antedates almost all world religions, and has the dubious distinction of having been cast out of its homeland more than once, and in the last case for several thousand years.
One sees the men clad in black walking to the Synagogue, and knows they have a candle lit at home. This is culture. Plainly, it works.