Vatomer Devorah

Recently, I was reading the morning blessings and these words jumped out at me:

אשר נתן לשכוי בינה

Hashem gave the rooster bina- understanding, intuition, discernment, to differentiate between day and night.

The rooster is clearly a male bird. Bina is a feminine trait that women are especially endowed with. Why did Hashem give the rooster (a male bird), bina?

The rooster crows and heralds the coming of the dawn because it is able to discern the subtle naunces between day and night before anyone else can. It takes action only after using the trait of bina, discernment. The dawn refers to new life, just as the day begins anew. In fertility care, by advancing with interventions without discerning the signs of life from the signs of inflammation a doctor is like a rooster without bina: crowing at all hours of the night, a time that is not receptive to life. He may get it right some of the time (or eventually after many interventions). But acting without bina/discernment, makes the process long and difficult, draining people physically, emotionally and financially. And-exacerbating underlying issues in the process.

Proceeding with interventions without environmental context means proceeding in the dark, without knowing if it is actually dawn. That is why the rooster is bestowed with the gift of bina. His outward actions-heralding of the dawn is dependent upon (the feminine root of) receptivity and discernment. The rooster takes in the environmental cues so he can understand when it is dawn. The womb is the environment in which new life begins. It is where new life dawns. That is why רחם (womb) is the same letters as מחר (tomorrow).