Is gender and sex not the same thing? Why is god depicted as a male?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So, I'm going to welcome to Practical Spirituality here in Asia turn the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the Western Wall. Why do we call God he? Why is God called he all the time? And that's not like we can't pull it off and say, "Well, that's just how it sounds in English." No, in Hebrew it's like like who notate the him the whole bunch of he gives sustenance to all flesh. It's he he he he he. And we always have this this masculine God this masculine God it referred in in Hebrew and obviously in any translation it will always come out as he. So, why is that? Now, before we answer that there's something that's really important to dispel. And you know that there's a lot of things that need to be dispelled. A lot of misconceptions, a lot of bad mistakes that have led to you know, to some of the worst of identity politics. And one of those is masculine and feminine is not male and female. Masculine and feminine is not male and Masculine and feminine is not male and female. And I I even though I've been teaching this for years, I finally heard Jordan Peterson say that in one of his podcasts and then realized, "Oh my gosh, that just really cuts to the chase." Masculine and feminine is not male and female. So, like there are men in here who are probably more feminine than some of the women in here. But your gender's female and his gender is male. But he's got more female than you got going, lady. Yeah? And there's probably some women in here who are more masculine than feminine. But she's a female with a lot

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6. 17:52or female. Ladies should be posting, too. Posting and stop watching other people's lives. Stop Stop…
7. 20:54I have a chance, maybe, because like it's enough footage, like hundreds of hours of footage.…
8. 24:34Things just simply work in sevens. Well, interestingly, women have inside of them a clock that…
9. 28:14Okay? When I should have put her on the right, but the um She ain't got…
10. 31:49So, the misunderstanding is that you will find you will find women in tzitzit, which may…

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