Gevurot 15:19

19 "Therefore, it is my judgment not to trouble the ones from the Goyim turning in teshuva to Hashem,

Gevurot 15:19 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 15:19

Wherefore my sentence is
Opinion or judgment in this case, or what he reckoned most advisable to be done; for he did not impose his sense upon the whole body, but proposed it to them:

that we trouble not them;
by obliging them to be circumcised, which would have been very afflicting and disturbing to them; not only because of the corporeal pain produced by circumcision, but because of the bondage their minds would be brought into, and they become subject to the whole law, and all its burdensome rites and ceremonies:

which from among the Gentiles are turned to God;
the one true and living God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and from idols, and the worshipping of them.

Gevurot 15:19 In-Context

17 “So that the she’erit (remnant) of anashim might seek Hashem and all the GOYIM who are called by my Name,
18 “Says the L-rd, who makes these things known from long ago. [Amos 9:11f Targum HaShivim, 12; Jer 12:15; Isa 45:21]
19 "Therefore, it is my judgment not to trouble the ones from the Goyim turning in teshuva to Hashem,
20 "But to write to them to keep away from the pollution of elilim and of zenut and of the thing strangled and of dahm. [Lv 3:17; 7:26; 17:1013; 19:26; Dt 12:16,23]
21 "For Moshe Rabbenu from ancient dorot in every shtetl has his maggidim and in the shuls every Shabbos he has been read."
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