chiyuv

Noun

chiyuv (plural chiyuvim)

1. (Judaism) An obligation.
   • 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.2002 May 15, Harry Weiss, “60 ways to be a frummie”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (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.2005 March 24, Lisa, “Force feeding geese for pate”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)
2. (Judaism) A mourner who is obligated to say Kaddish.
   • 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.2000 November 3, Eliot Shimoff, “Liturgical issues -- in the spirit of Conservative Judaism”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)