The way God made the world it is, exactly like a family, at the very top is the father / mother which is basically like, God and the Rebbe, then following that there is the firstborn, it says "the Jewish people are my first-born" and the Torah tells us that one honors the firstborn, because it is the spirit of the father – he is the role model – so we being the role model for the Gentiles – when we behave, they do too