Why this word is great
SHOMER — [Adjective, Noun] (adj) Observant, particularly in adhering to Jewish religious laws; (noun) A male who guards a deceased person's body as part of the Jewish ritual of shemira. From Hebrew שומר (shomer, "keeper, guard"), from the verb שמר (shamar, "to keep, guard"). Unlike "pious" (which broadly denotes religious devotion) or "vigilant" (which suggests general watchfulness), "shomer" is a covenant of specificity—the quiet discipline of kosher kitchens, the unbroken watch over the dead through the night, the meticulous turning of pages in a worn siddur. It is the weight of a commandment carried in the spine, the flicker of a candle beside a shrouded form, the unspoken promise that even in silence, nothing will be left unattended. To be shomer is to know that holiness lives in the details.