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The Jewish concept is that all souls were created before the world and are kept in a celestial treasury. They are all referred to as “she”

(1) Where are you getting this from? Could you share your source? I have honestly never heard of this being a modern Jewish belief. I do know, as I mentioned earlier, that the Pharisee sect believed in pre-existence of the souls under heavy Hellenistic influence of neo-Platonism (for instance Philo of Alexandria believed in it). I was under the impression that the post-Jamnia rabbinical Judaism rejected all outside influences (save for Babylonian dualism).

This is important and your sharing this will be much appreciated.

(2)The fact that a soul is or souls are referred to as "she" is not a pronoun for the soul, but a gender of the word. Unlike English, Hebrew, Greek and Slavic, and Latin languages have word-genders. These are inherent in the word itself and have no implication whosoever of the geneder of the object because even inanimate objects have word-genders.

It just so happens that in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Slavonic, the word for soul is a feminine-gender word, but in Slavonic, for example, so is bone, or door. They are all referred to as "she."

In German, the mouse is a neutral-gender word, just as the house. In English, word-genders actually assign gender to the object of the word. Thus a ship is often referred to as "she" and a snake or a fly is a "he." That doesn't mean a partiocular snake or a fly is necessarily "male," nor is a ship "female."

Moreover, in German, definite article (die, der, das -- pron. dee, dehr, dahss, corresponding to female, male and neutral gender) are also gender-word! Thus when you say "I am in school" (school is die schule, or feminine geneder-word) the article changes from feminine-gender to masculine-gender to "Ich bin in der schule because it is also a propositional article, indicating a dative case.