coffee addict has two questions:
We say תורה צוה לנו משה מורשה קהילת יעקב the word מורשה (according what I heard at least) is that it means inheritance (and because we say קהילת יעקב it’s understood from יעקב) how can an alive person give over an inheritance, inheritance is only done after death?
and
Doesn’t it say Hashem doesn’t affix His name to a person while he’s alive? (Hashem said to Moshe “אלקי אביך” and the midrash says that’s how Moshe knew he passed away) yet Hashem says אלקי יעקב
Perhaps that’s where the Yiddish expression פון א קשיא שטארבט מען נישט – “one doesn’t die from a question” – comes from. Just because you have two problems with the statement יעקב אבינו לא מת it doesn’t mean that he died! 🙂