"The male sex is zachar, it is the depository of the Divine revelations and the spiritual attainments of the human race. To it has been entrusted the zicharon, the tradition of the human race as it has developed, in him is formed the spiritual chain which links together the beginning and the end of the human race; the male sex is the zachar, the bearer of history. Its activities do not belong wholly to the present moment, it has to think of the tasks and traditions received from God and from the past, and from the union of these with the events and conditions of the present to produce its own activities which carry on the chain of history further and further to perpetuity."
R' Hirsch
Judaism Eternal, II
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