About Shomer Shalom
Shomer Shalom is an organization of Jews who follow a path of nonviolence based on Jewish principles of religious engagement. Some of us repeat a daily intention of Jewish nonviolence.
Shomer is a Hebrew word meaning stewardship. Traditionally, the word shomer is used in several key expressions: Shomer Shabbat: keeping the Sabbath, Shomer Kashrut: keeping kosher, Shomer lashon, guarding our tongue from hurtful speech and more recently Shomer Adamah: keeper of the environment.
Shomer Shalom entails a daily choice not to cause intentional harm and committing oneself to active non-violence, a transformative pathway of social and spiritual action.
Individually, members of Shomer Shalom are committed to living a nonviolent Jewish life and are encouraged to participate in nonviolence organizations as Jews and to participate in Jewish organizations as practitioners of nonviolence.
Collectively, Shomer Shalom offers retreats and programs dedicated to nurturing the nonviolent faith of its members. It produces and distributes educational and liturgical materials rooted in Jewish nonviolent traditions.
Shomer Shalom is committed to cultivating an intergenerational, multi-cultural and interfaith global community of peace, justice, loving kindness, and solidarity.
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I’ve just learned of Shomer Shalom, this is an important and wonderful addition to the Jewish community and to the world wide community of peacemakers. May your work help transform our world.
Peace and Blessings,
Mordechai Liebling
“if we could read the secret history of our enemies we should
find in each man’s life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm
all hostility” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field ~ I’ll meet you there” -Rumi
“when you are calm in the face of the tiger you will surely succeed” -Mencius
“everything is all right” -Harry Palmer
Just now listening to Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb on a telephone seminar ~ wow ~ please add this address to your
email list ~ melanie…
Warm regards, love, blessings…melanie
Hello, Lynne,
I’m so glad to see you are still shaking things up. This is wonderful.
I would really like to talk with you. Would you please write me?
Thanks.
Sher Sweet
from Northfield, MA
Yashar Koach — You have just given me the term — Shomer Shalom– I needed for describing my own pacifism, which I have long been referring to as a personal chumra (additional strictness in one’s personal practice) of the mitzvah to “seek peace and pursue it.” BTW, I am the author of “Eight Candles of Consciousness: Essays on Jewish Nonviolence” — a collection of my poems, articles and essays spanning 40 years — download & print versions available at: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=685386
May all beings be at peace!
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Finally, a Jewish organization concerned with Israel I can believe in….thank you for being here.