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Because Pirkei Avos says Shemoneh Esrei L’Chupa (see also Rambam, Hilchos Ishus 15:28; Tur and Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer, beginning of perek 1. see also Shulchan Aruch, Admur HaZakein, Hilchos Talmud Torah perek 1, Kuntres Acharon I.) And Rav Chisda says that marriage at an early age leads to superior spiritual qualities and freedom from aveira (Kiddushin 29b). The Gemora says a young man who isn’t married by 18 “Hashem waits for him until he’s twenty, and if he’s not married by 20, then Hashem says “blast his bones.”