Sam4: I agree with everything you said. Unfortunately, when someone earlier mentioned it as a “Mitzvah” they did not mean to say it in the same way as the Mishnah Berurah did. I am in no way finding any fault with the MB here, I am just saying that he was not perfectly Medakdek with his phraseology, probably because he didn’t need to be. At some point the word “Mitzvah” has become so blurred to the general populace that it has lost all meaning and can actually imply far too many, sometimes contradictory, things.
