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Sam2
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LF: I didn’t come up with that. One of the Chassidish Rebbes said it (because you use a hammer to knock on doors to wake people up for Minyan and someone who doesn’t go to Minyan is called a Shachein Ra). It’s a cute Remez, but it really bothers me when people think that that’s how the Yiddish word was created and it just happened to be that the German (and English) word is the same. I certainly don’t think that the Rebbe that said it meant that. He meant it as a Remez to inspire people to get up for Minyan.

Algor: That’s a name that a Ger in Washington Heights came up with for his name around 75 years ago. So yes, it does stand for that.

The much better one is the Chida. AZuL”AI stands for Isha Zona V’chalalah Lo Yikachu.