That's not the way the Seder should be, is it?

 

            The question is not how does it look, but what does it say? 

 

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WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDER?

This is one version of the Passover seder.  Is it correct and accurate?  Write down  what you think it gets wrong.

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“Then, it’s time to  pour the second cup of wine.  Once that is done, the kids questions the grownups about the Seder. 

"Now if a kid doesn’t know enough  to ask their  own questions,   the parent teaches them how to ask questions at  a seder, (like this):  What makes this night different from all other nights?  On all other  nights, we eat leavened and unleavened bread, but on this night, we eat only unleavened bread.  On all other nights, we eat all kinds of vegetables, but on this night, we eat only bitter herbs.  On all other nights, we eat meat roasted, broiled or boiled, but on this night, we eat only roasted meat.  On all other nights, we dip vegetables once, but on this night, we dip vegetables twice.  And the parent teaches how to ask questions according to the kid’s  brainpower.

"Then Seder leader beings answering the questions with the story of Israel’s shameful start as a people and concludes with Israel’s fabulousness, and makes Midrash on the Torah from “Arami Oved Avi-- My father was a wandering Aramean” until the end of that whole passage [from Devarim/Deuteronomy].

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The Mishnah is the foundation of Judaism after the fall of the 2nd Temple and the first code of Jewish law after the Torah itself. 

 It is the Oral tradition that began at Mount Sinai saved into written form. All of Judaism as we know it,  from ancient to modern times, is based on the two Talmuds (Bavli and Yerushalmi), and the Talmud, in turn, is based on the Mishnah.  

The Mishnah not just a code of law; it is a record of how Judaism came to be where it is, a story of sages and students, and a way of looking at the world.  To study the Mishnah is to study the echoes of God's voice that ripple from Mount Sinai each and every day.

MISHNAH--  PESACHIM 10:4

מָזְגוּ לוֹ כוֹס שֵׁנִי, וְכָאן הַבֵּן שׁוֹאֵל אָבִיו, וְאִם אֵין דַּעַת בַּבֵּן, אָבִיו מְלַמְּדוֹ: מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת?

 

שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻלּוֹ מַצָּה. שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין שְׁאָר יְרָקוֹת, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מָרוֹר. שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין בָּשָׂר צָלִי, שָׁלוּק, וּמְבֻשָּׁל, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻלּוֹ צָלִי. 

שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ מַטְבִּילִין פַּעַם אַחַת, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה שְׁתֵּי פְעָמִים.

 

וּלְפִי דַעְתּוֹ שֶׁל בֵּן, אָבִיו מְלַמְּדוֹ. מַתְחִיל בִּגְנוּת וּמְסַיֵּם בְּשֶׁבַח, וְדוֹרֵשׁ מֵ"אֲרַמִּי אוֹבֵד אָבִי", עַד שֶׁיִּגְמֹר כֹּל הַפָּרָשָׁה כֻלָּהּ: