SOTAH 2025 Iyyun Shiur #1 Audio

From Taking Responsibility for Torah by Aryeh Klapper.

• Published: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:14:58 GMT
• Duration: 01:31:38
• Books: Sotah
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Tannaim dispute whether kinui sotah is a mitzvah or reshut. The stamma d'gemara assumes that kinui sotah is either lekhatchilah or assur. Amoraim dispute whether the husband who is mekanei his wife is under the sway of a ruach taharah or rather a ruach tum'ah.

How can these positions best be aligned, reconciled, and/or synthesized? How do they relate to rishonim's statements about the purpose of the institution?