So 'Rabi' conceptually means 'father of the house.' and as a concept it moves through every culture while the word or symbol used in each culture may be different. You may actually say 'father' of the house in other cultures but it does not mean that there would only be one father in the entire family; no. The rabbi must work to see a reproduction of households and fathers of households while the eldest father is the oldest in the chain to work for growth and not stalling it but hastening it without coveting his position and hoping to be 'the only one' in spite of the number of men and women who he has been called to father. He should work to see each in a household and with every opportunity to do so.
So 'Rabbi' conceptually means 'father of the house.' and as a concept it moves through every culture while the word or symbol used in each culture may be different. You may actually say 'father' of the house in other cultures but it does not mean that there would only be one father in the entire family; no. The rabbi must work to see a reproduction of households and fathers of households while the eldest father is the oldest in the chain to work for growth and not stalling it but hastening it without coveting his position and hoping to be 'the only one' in spite of the number of men and women who he has been called to father. He should work to see each in a household and with every opportunity to do so.
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