Meaning of chiyuv | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An obligation.
   Judaism
2. A mourner who is obligated to say Kaddish.
   Judaism

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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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