Nope. Go back and do your homework on rabbi. Means “great one.” Doesn’t mean these “great ones” didn’t do some teaching. But that was not their title. You look it up. For your reading pleasure, I will do a further word study later when I have access to my Hebrew resources. So if you don’t want to Google it, you can wait for that.
As for Ugly Americans, I never claimed to be pretty, so there! :)
Peace,
SR
Rabi is a teacher of the law and it is derived from Master, which means great one.
Y'all are arguing a moot point - 'Rabbi' is an exterior appellation... The people called them 'rabbi'... And the term comes with 'master' type baggage due to the remarkable knowledge it took to become a rabbi, not to mention a 'Great Rabbi'. 'Master' is an interior appellation... A rabbi's disciples called him 'master' and also 'rabbi', but master was the main term of submission. So the two are somewhat interchangeable, interior vs. exterior to the 'assembly' of a rabbi.
'Father', to my knowledge, has no honorific among the Hebrews beyond the normal patriarchal sense, but was very broadly used in pagan circles (PATR, PETR) as an honorific for their priests, as was something like 'master' among their high dignitaries. Pope does derive from this, but the office comes from the universal high priest of the ecumenical hierarchy of the eastern mystery religions... The 'Pontiff Maximus', a title later bestowed upon Roman emperors in their role as priest kings. It was inherited into the Roman church as such, with it's ascension to 'emperor' over the Western Empire.