[Mesorah] B'nos Tzelapchad Pronouns

[Michael Poppers]

I've seen quoted online (
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53114/can-someone-have-a-soul-of-the-opposite-gender),
"Haichal Habracha - Bamidbar 27:7
<http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pagefeed/hebrewbooks_org_22167_361.pdf> says
that the Bnos Tzelafchad had male Neshamos"; and while that hyperlink is
currently not working, I do recall seeing the relevant paragraph, and the
author definitely connected the masculine endings into his comments.

All the best from
--Michael via phone

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 9:27 PM Henry Topas via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> Perhaps someone can answer why in the last piece of Bamidbar, the Torah
> repeatedly uses the male possessive pronoun "lahem", "avihem" "b'eineihem"
> etc.  Near the end, this switches largely to the feminine "Avihen" and
> "Dodasan".
>
> I have looked through many meforshim. The closest I found of interest was
> the notion brought down that while still single, the daughters, being
> Chachamos, were zocheh to the masculine pronouns.
>
> I would be grateful for any additional insight or peirushim that I have
> missed which would clarify this.
>
> As a balkriah, this issue is particularly vexing.
>
> Shkoyech in advance,
>
> Kol Tuv,
>
> Henry Topas
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