Yaakov Avinu (Our Father)
Known as the "chosen one" of the "Avot," the "Founding Fathers" of the Jewish People, son of Yitzchak father of the Twelve Tribes...
Yaakov Avinu (Our Father)
(ca. 1655 – B.C.E. – ca. 1505 B.C.E.) Known as the “chosen one” of the “Avot,” the “Founding Fathers” of the Jewish People, son of Yitzchak father of the Twelve Tribes.
He was the third Patriarch of the Jewish People.
Yaakov Avinu is described in the Torah as “a wholesome man who sat in the tents,” meaning that he learned Torah in the Academy of Shem and Ever. When he was 15, he bought the right of the first born from his twin brother Esau and later succeeded in receiving the blessing from his father Yitzchak. His brother wanted to kill him because of that and he fled to Charan where he married the daughters of his uncle Laban – Rachel and Leah. He also had two concubines, Zilpah (Leah’s handmaiden) and Bilhah (Rachel’s handmaiden).
He was in Charan for 20 years and fathered the 12 Tribes of Israel and a daughter, Dina. Due to a famine in the Land of Canaan, he and his family, numbering 70 souls, went down to Egypt, where he passed away. He asked his son Yosef, the Viceroy of Egypt, to bury him in the Cave of the Machpela in Hebron next to his wife Leah.
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