The Jewish People everywhere are sorely in need of much greater public and private Shabbat observance — the wide mental spaces, healing calm, and unifying potential embedded in G-d’s great gift of Shabbat. Indeed, the reinvigoration of Jewish and Zionist identity underway in Israel (including Shabbat observance) must be embraced by Diaspora Jewry too, since it is under assault by radical forces from without and self-annihilationist forces from within.