My father, z”l, used to signal a siddur that only had Shabbos and Yom Tov tefillos, a rummel. I always wondered about the etymology of that word and its primary meaning.
The word is actually an abbreviation with the letters, resh, vav, mem, lamed. In Yiddish the letters stand for: Rabbinish Un Masorishe Literatur viz. Rabbinic And Masoretic (traditional) Literature.
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