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?
