35 Facts About Jacob Joseph

1. Jacob Joseph is referenced by name sixteen times in the Quran.

2. Jacob Joseph is the protagonist of the Testament of Jacob Joseph, of the Ladder of Jacob and of the Prayer of Joseph, which interpret the experience of this Patriarch in the context of merkabah mysticism.

3. Jacob Joseph had still another reason for grieving the loss of Joseph.

4. Jacob Joseph identified the coat as the one he made for Joseph.

5. Jacob Joseph was finally reunited with his father Isaac in Mamre.

6. Jacob Joseph buried her and erected a monument over her grave.

7. Jacob Joseph feared that his descendants would never be free of Esau's domination, but God assured him that at the End of Days, Edom too would come falling down.

8. Jacob Joseph convinced Isaac to send Jacob Joseph away by telling him that she despaired of his marrying a local girl from the idol-worshipping families of Canaan.

9. Jacob Joseph had scarcely left the room when Esau returned from the hunt to prepare his game and receive the blessing.

10. Jacob Joseph protested that his father would recognize their deception since Esau was hairy and he himself was smooth-skinned.

11. Jacob Joseph had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.

12. Jacob Joseph was immobilized by a stroke in 1895, and passed away in 1902.

13. In one Talmudic story, Jacob Joseph was buried in the Nile river, as there was some dispute as to which province should be honored by having his tomb within its boundaries.

14. Jacob Joseph had his father embalmed, a process that took forty days.

15. Jacob Joseph lived to the age of 110, living to see his great-grandchildren.

16. Jacob Joseph was called into his father's house and Israel pleaded with his son that he not be buried in Egypt.

17. Jacob Joseph became greatly distressed feeling that they treated him badly.

18. Jacob Joseph interpreted this dream as the baker getting hanged in three days.

19. Jacob Joseph interpreted this dream as the cup bearer would have his job as cup bearer to Pharaoh back.

20. Jacob Joseph was saved from her designs because Allah was with him.

21. Jacob Joseph brought his two sons to be blessed by their grandfather and he witnessed their adoption by Jacob as well as the transference of the birthright from the elder, Manasseh, to the younger, Ephraim.

22. At the age of 17 Jacob Joseph tended his father's sheep in the land of Canaan.

23. Jacob Joseph held several positions in London municipal government before serving as sheriff of the city of London and was lord mayor of London from 1943 to 1944, the sixth Jew to have held this position.

24. Jacob Joseph died at the age of 110; the Israelites took his bones to Canaan when they left Egypt during the Exodus.

25. Jacob Joseph was born in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon.

26. Jacob Joseph told them that God had always intended that he go to Egypt, to save many people.

27. Jacob Joseph is estimated to have been ninety-one years old when Joseph was born.

28. Jacob Joseph sends them home, but he puts a royal cup in Benjamin's travel bag.

29. Jacob Joseph prepared for the famine by storing up some extra food.

30. Jacob Joseph started in slavery, but he worked his way up by interpreting Pharaoh's dreams.

31. Jacob Joseph was at the time the youngest captain in the USMC.

32. Jacob Joseph died at age 62 and his funeral was one of the largest in New York, attended by more than 50,000 Jews.

33. Jacob Joseph took an active role in establishing the Etz Chaim Yeshiva—the first yeshiva on the Lower East Side, which was founded in 1886.

34. Jacob Joseph hesitated in coming to America, aware that there were fewer religious Jews.

35. Jacob Joseph became successively rabbi of Vilon in 1868, Yurburg in 1870, Zhagory and then Kovno.