Pronounced: SHO-mur nuh-GEE-AH (with a hard g), or sho-MARE nuh-GEE-AH, Origin: Hebrew, the practice of not touching members of the opposite sex outside of marriage.
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Text of Avinu Malkeinu
This series of petitions addressed to "Our Father, Our King," is recited on Yom Kippur and other fast days.
Shomer Negiah, the Prohibition on Touching
The term refers to someone who refrains from physical contact with members of the opposite sex.
