chiyuv

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew חִיּוּב.

Noun

chiyuv (plural chiyuvim)

  1. (Judaism) An obligation.
    • 2002 May 15, Harry Weiss, “60 ways to be a frummie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎[1] (Usenet):
      When you're engaged, you have a chiyuv to set up your friends too. You might not have anybody in mind for your friends before you're engaged, but once you are, you obtain a special power that makes it possible to sense a good shidduch when you see one.
    • 2005 March 24, Lisa, “Force feeding geese for pate”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎[2] (Usenet):
      When it comes to a person's freedom of action in Judaism, there are only chiyuvim and issurim, and everything else is up to the individual.
    • 2011 January 30, “Burying Amputated Limbs with Body”, in Ask The Rabbi - Dinonline‎[3]:
      Is there an inyan or chiyuv to bury the entire body together, or is it OK to have body parts buried in two separate locations?
  2. (Judaism) A mourner who is obligated to say Kaddish.
    • 2000 November 3, Eliot Shimoff, “Liturgical issues -- in the spirit of Conservative Judaism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated‎[4] (Usenet):
      When I was a chiyuv (saying kaddish for my father, a'h, and thus leading prayers almost every day), I asked my LOR whether I should continue my practice, or adopt the more standard version. He told me that my version was an acceptable variant within the shul's own accepted nusach.
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