Editing Passover Seder (section)

==== {{transliteration|he|Mah Nishtanah}} (The Four Questions) ====
{{Main|the four questions}}

The [[Mishna]] details questions one is obligated to ask on the night of the seder. It is customary for the youngest child present to recite the four questions.<ref name=jewfaq>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewfaq.org/seder.htm |title=Judaism 101: Pesach Seder: How is This Night Different |access-date=2008-09-21}}</ref> Some customs hold that the other participants recite them quietly to themselves as well. In some families, this means that the requirement remains on an adult "child" until a grandchild of the family receives sufficient Jewish education to take on the responsibility. If a person has no children capable of asking, the responsibility falls to their spouse, or another participant.<ref name=pesachim116>Talmud Bavli, Pesachim, 116a</ref> The need to ask is so great that even if a person is alone at the seder they are obligated to ask themselves and to answer their own questions.<ref name=pesachim116 />

# <li value="0"> {{transliteration|he|Ma nishtana ha lyla ha zeh mikkol hallaylot?}} ('Why is this night different from all other nights?')
# {{transliteration|he|Shebb'khol hallelot anu okh'lin ḥamets umatsa, vehallayla hazze kullo matsa.}} ('Why is it that on all other nights during the year we eat either leavened bread or matza, but on this night we eat only matza?')
# {{transliteration|he|Shebb'khol hallelot anu okh'lin sh'ar y'rakot, vehallayla hazze maror.}} ('Why is it that on all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables, but on this night we eat bitter herbs?')
# {{transliteration|he|Shebb'khol hallelot en anu matbillin afillu pa'am eḥat, vehallayla hazze sh'tei fe'amim.}} ('Why is it that on all other nights we do not dip [our food] even once, but on this night we dip them twice?')
# {{transliteration|he|Shebb'khol hallelot anu okh'lin ben yosh'vin uven m'subbin, vehallayla hazze kullanu m'subbin.}} ('Why is it that on all other nights we dine either sitting upright or reclining, but on this night we all recline?')

The question about reclining substitutes for a question about eating roasted meat, that was present in the mishnah but removed by later authorities due to its inapplicability after the [[destruction of the temple]]:
# <li value="4"> {{transliteration|he|Shebb'khol hallelot anu okh'lin basar tsali shaluk umvushal, vehallayla hazze kullo tsali.}} ('Why is it that on all other nights we eat meat either roasted, marinated, or cooked, but on this night it is entirely roasted?')</li>

Roasted sacrifices were no longer possible after the destruction, and roasted meat was therefore disallowed on seder night, to avoid ambiguity.

The four questions have been translated into over 300 languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whyisthisnight.com |title=300 Ways to Ask The Four Questions |access-date=2008-09-22}}</ref>