Reply To: Marriage

SJS-

According to the Ramban, pilegesh is simply a man and a woman who move in together. He recommended to Rabbeinu Yonah not to allow it for it can lead to laxity in Hilchos niddah and other problems, but l’halacha he held it was fine. My point, however, is that you cannot say that the purpose of marriage is in order to procreate, because there is a perfectly legitimate way – in the eyes of the Torah – to procreate without marriage. If you are correct, then the whole institution of marriage seems superfluous.

gaw-

True, but then she would be a helper in the mitzva of pru u’rvu, not in the mitzva of marriage.