Parashat Vayehi: Future goal and present existence
Jacob’s and Joseph’s life stories are also amazingly similar. They both find themselves in a foreign country following an altercation with their brothers; they both work for a foreign master, etc.
Joseph's coffin was indeed buried in the land of Israel: Joseph's Tomb, before 1899(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ