<div dir="auto">I've seen quoted online (<a href="https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53114/can-someone-have-a-soul-of-the-opposite-gender" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/53114/can-someone-have-a-soul-of-the-opposite-gender</a>), "<a href="http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pagefeed/hebrewbooks_org_22167_361.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:georgia,cambria,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,252,248)">Haichal Habracha - Bamidbar 27:7</a><span style="color:rgb(35,38,41);font-family:georgia,cambria,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,252,248)"> says that the Bnos Tzelafchad had male Neshamos</span>"; 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. <br><br>All the best from <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Michael via phone</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 9:27 PM Henry Topas via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I would be grateful for any additional insight or peirushim that I have missed which would clarify this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">As a balkriah, this issue is particularly vexing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Shkoyech in advance,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Kol Tuv,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Henry Topas</div></div>
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