Reply To: Marriage

As I mentioned before and as Fabie elaborated, there is a machlokes rishonim whether or not marriage is a mitzva. Oomis, the fact that we make a bracha doesn’t prove it is a mitzva, because the bracha can simply be a birchas hashevach. Just like when I buy a new suit I make a she’hechiyanu, and no one will say that this proves there is a mitzva to buy a new suit.

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Just a side point, your assumption about children born out of wedlock is incorrect. Such a child, provided that neither of his parents are unkosher in some way or arayos to each other, has absolutely nothing wrong with him and can even be the kohein gadol if he is a kohein.