Jastrow: הַזְכָּרָה

הַזְכָּרָה f. (זכר; v. אַזְכָּרָה) l) giving a debtor notice in order to prevent loss of right by limitation. Keth. 104ᵃ גובה שלא בה׳ has a right to collect (after the lapse of twenty five years) even if he has given no notice.—2) Hazkarah (= הַזְכָּרַת גשמים), the insertion of a reference to rain in the second section of the Prayer of Benedictions, v. גְּבוּרָה, contrad. to שַׁאֲלָה. Taan. 2ᵇ; a. e.—3) the Tetragrammaton. Y. Ber. III, 6ᶜ bot.—Pl. הַזְכָּרוֹת. Ib. IV, 8ᵃ top י"ח ה׳ וכ׳ eighteen invocations in Ps. XXIX. Lev. R. s. 1 י"ח ה׳ שבק"ש eighteen invocations in the recitation of Sh’ma, v. שְׁמַע; a. e.