When was the first Passover Haggadah compiled and created?
Oy, the questions are getting harder! All right, the Tannaim in the Mishnah standardized much of the Passover Haggadah content and provided the order of instructions or framework for it. This is stated in Pesachim 10 of the Mishnah. However, it is interesting to note that “reciting the Passover Haggadah” is only mentioned later on in the Pesachim tractate of the Talmud (Pesachim 116). Who were the Tannaim? “Tannaim” is the plural form of “Tanna” which means “one who studies” or “one who teaches” in Hebrew, and is from an Aramaic verb meaning “to study” or “repeat”. The text of the Mishnah is quoting rabbis who lived from about 400 B.C.E. or later to either 200 C.E. or 220 C.E. These rabbis, as previously mentioned, are called the Tannaim, “teachers.” In this group are included such greats as Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi Akiva, and of course Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi. (In the Gemara, they all have the title Rebbe before their first name.) The Tannaim were a group
