Gevurot 20:36

36 And having said these things, Rav Sha’ul fell down and, with them all, began davening.

Gevurot 20:36 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:36

And when he had thus spoken
And finished his speech to the elders: he kneeled down: upon the floor, which was a prayer gesture, used by Christ, and others; for, it seems, the disuse of kneeling in prayer, between the passover and pentecost, which Tertullian ^F11, and other writers, speak of, had not yet obtained, which was in memory of Christ's resurrection from the dead, for this was now the time: see ( Acts 20:6 Acts 20:16 ) and

prayed with them all:
and no doubt for them all; the Syriac version renders it, "and he prayed, and all the men with him"; the apostle, and the elders, joined together in prayer.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 De Corona Militis, c. 3.

Gevurot 20:36 In-Context

34 "You yourselves have da’as that these hands of mine supported all my needs as well as the needs of those with me.

35 "In all this I was showing you a mofet (example) that thus working hard it is necessary to help the weak and to have zikaron of the dvarim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, that he himself said, ‘Beser (better) to geben (give) than to nemen (take).’"

36 And having said these things, Rav Sha’ul fell down and, with them all, began davening.

37 And there was much weeping among them, and, having fallen upon the neck of Rav Sha’ul, they were kissing him,

38 with agmat nefesh above all at the dvar in which Rav Sha’ul had said that no longer would they see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the oniyah.