קנאה תאוה וכבוד correspond to the 3 Avos.
Avraham is love. "אברהם אוהבי". [Yeshayahu 41-8]. He is completely directed to the love of Hashem. He fixes תאוה which is false love.
Yitzchak represents יראת שמים. That was his essence. "עקידת יצחק" - He was not only physically bound - he was also spiritually bound and tied up in the sense that he couldn't contravene the will of hashem. An אוהב is "out there". A ירא is afraid [in a healthy way] to make a wrong move. He didn't perceive himself as being an absolute reality. Only Hashem is. He fixed קנאה which is where I view MYSELF as being "THE MAN" and others as ancillary. יצחק contains the letters קץ חי. He "lives the end". He was "over". His ashes were on the מזבח and Hashem still sees that [as Chazal tell us].
Yaakov fixed כבוד. He was מופקע [completely divorced] from ליצנות. He valued what mattered. Therefore he never wasted his seed - not once. He never said anything superfluous [except once according to Chazal - when he asked his sons why they told the ruler in Egypt that they have a brother back home]. He returned to recover his פכים קטנים. Even small jugs have value if they enable a person to serve Hashem. THAT is כבוד - honoring what deserves honor, valuing what has value. זלזול [as we discussed in the previous post] is stripping things of value.
Yaakov never died [Taanis 5b]. He was complete מציאות. His "bed" was complete - מיטתו שלימה. All of his sons were Tzadikim [in contrast to his father and grandfather who both had a son that strayed]. That is why he couldn't accept consolation for Yosef - he couldn't come to terms with the fact that a son was lost, that a מציאות was לבטלה.
