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Matzah= Mitzvah?

Why don't we make a bracha when we eat  Matzah? While it is true that on
the first night or two during the Sedarim (Seder's) we do make blessings
over matzah, on the latter days we do not. Why not? The Talmud and
Midrash understood that when the Torah says "seven days you shall eat
matzah" it did not mean that it was a mitzvah to eat matzah seven days,
but rather, it was a way to prohibit chametz, leaven, for all week. The
Rabbis derived that only the first night, or in Diaspora, the first two
nights is it incumbent upon us to eat matzah.

But still, if I do eat the matzah, it should at least be an optional
mitzvah! For instance, in the parallel mitzvah of eating in a Succah, we
are told in the Talmud that only on the first night must one eat there,
but that if we choose to only snack for a day or two, no Succah is
required. However, we do make a bracha over eating in the Succah even in
the later days of Succoth. Why the difference?

Several answers have been given. Rabbi Zerachiah Halevi (Provence, 13th
cent.) writes that it is impossible to go for 8 days without a Succah
since people used to sleep in the Succah. So the Torah expected a person
to frequent the Succah more than the first day. On Pesach, perhaps a
person would eat vegetables all week, and never come to eat matzah, so
that the lack of necessity means that it is not obligatory.

The Baal HaIttur (Provence 13th cent.) writes that one who eats in a
Succah does get the mitzvah of eating in a Succah.  One who eats matzah
on the latter days is just avoiding the sin of Chametz, not doing a
positive act. Therefore, there is no beracha.

However, the Vilna Gaon did think it would be a mitzvah to eat Shemurah
matzah on all of Pesach, but he too admits that no blessing is recited.