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 bina?

The rooster crows and heralds the coming of the dawn because it is able to discern between day and night before anyone else can. It takes action only after using the trait of bina, discernment. The dawn actually represents renewal and new life, just like each day begins anew.

In fertility care, proceeding with interventions without environmental context of the womb, is proceeding in the dark, without knowing whether it is time for dawn to arrive. The womb is the environment in which new life begins. It is where new life dawns. That is why רחם (womb) is written with the same letters as מחר (tomorrow).