חובה

חוֹבָהf. (חוּב) obligation, duty; (sub. קרבן) obligatory sacrifice, opp. נְדָבָה. Naz.II, 8 הרי אני נזיר ח׳ I am a Nazir by obligation (because the condition of my vow was fulfilled), opp. נזיר נדבה a voluntary nazarite without a conditional vow. Ib. הראשון ח׳ in that case my first nazariteship was obligatory. Kinnim I, 1 הח׳ the obligatory sacrifices, opp. נדרים ונדבות. Ber.27b תפלת … רשות או ח׳ is the evening prayer elective or obligatory? Zeb.I, 1 לא עלו … לשם ח׳ they are not accounted to those who offered them as a compliance with the obligation under which they are. Ber.8b, a. fr. יוצא … ידי חוֹבָתוֹ has paid his obligation (of reading the Shma). Ib. 20b, a. fr. אינו מוציא … ידי חוֹבָתָן cannot be the medium through which others pay their obligation (v. חוּב); a. fr. חוֹבַת הגוף, חוֹבַת גברא , v. גּוּף, גַּבְרָא Y.Ber.IX, 14b bot. פרוש אדע חוֹבָתִיוכ׳ a Pharisee of the class (of those who say), ‘I want to know my obligation, and I will pay it, expl. הי דא חובתאוכ׳ what wrong have I done that I may do a good act to make up for it.Pl. חוֹבוֹת. Succ.56a, v. רֶגֶל; a. e. 2) condemnation, doom.Pl. as ab. Midr. Till. to Ps 4:8 פותחין בח׳ begin with predictions of doom, opp. נחמות. חוֹבָה Ch., v. חוֹבָא.