Yaakov Avinu
1653 BCE–1506 BCE · Biblical · The Negev
Yaakov, later renamed Israel, is the third patriarch and father of the twelve tribes. Fleeing his brother Esau, he dreamed at Beth-El of a ladder joining heaven and earth; he spent some twenty years in Charan with his uncle Lavan, married Leah and Rachel, and on his return wrestled a divine being at the Jabbok ford and was renamed Israel. In old age he descended to Egypt, was reunited with his son Yosef, and blessed his sons before dying at 147; his body was carried back to the Cave of Machpelah.
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The Negevהנגב
What they did here
Born to Yitzchak and Rivka; grows up in the land of Canaan.
About The Negev
The Negev is the arid southern region of the Land of Israel (today southern Israel). In the Torah's patriarchal narratives, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob journeyed and pastured their flocks in the Negev; in the modern era it became a major area of Jewish agricultural settlement.
In The Negev at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Yaakov Avinu’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Avraham Avinu, Yitzchak Avinu, Rivka Imenu, Eisav, Leah Imenu, Rachel Imenu, Levi, Yehudah, Yosef HaTzaddik
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