TT #58 · Parashas Vayechi · Passuk 49:33
When Jacob finished his instructions to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and, breathing his last, he was gathered to his kin.
Torah Temimah cites Taanis 5b.
English: Rav Nachman and Rabbi Yitzchak were sitting at a meal. After they had eaten, Rabbi Yitzchak said to him: Rabbi Yochanan said this: “Jacob our father did not die.”
Continuation of the Taanis 5b aggadic context surrounding the statement “Jacob our father did not die.”
This second unit preserves the surrounding dialogue in the same sugya rather than duplicating the first unit’s full derivation. The statement is introduced after the meal and immediately prompts Rav Nachman’s challenge about the mourning, embalming, and burial of Jacob.