At first glance the wicked children’s question does not appear to be so different from the wise child’s question; both seem to suggest that others are commanded to observe the Passover and not them. Rabbi Horowitz solves this problem by contextualizing the questions. These questions were originally asked in the wilderness when the Israelites did not yet observe the Passover offering. As uncircumcised children, the laws applied to their fathers but not to them. Still, the wicked child’s question has different implications from that of the wise child. **What does the wise (child) ask?**How is the wise child different from the wicked child? The wise child asks, “What are these testimonies, decrees…that God has commanded you?” The commentators wonder how this question is different from the wicked child who separates himself from the community by asking, “What is this service to you?” Both sound as if they are separating themselves from the community. This child’s question is posed to the generation of the wilderness. The Israelites who sojourned in the wilderness only observed Passover once after leaving Egypt until they arrived in the land of Canaan. The Tosaphot explain that the people in the wilderness only ate matzah and maror (and not the Pesach offering). The wise child therefore asks, “What are all these testimonies, decrees, etc” (regarding the Pesach offering) which God has commanded you (and not me, since I am living in the wilderness and not obligated to bring this offering)? The wise child wonders: In the land of Israel we will be obligated to observe all of these laws including the Pesach offering, matzah and bitter herbs. So why do we observe only some of them now: either we should observe all of them here in the wilderness or none of them because we are not yet settled in the land of Israel! We answer this question by saying: “Nothing should be eaten after the afikomen.” Sacrifices could only be offered in the Temple; even though it was possible to bring the Passover offering in the tabernacle, the Pesach offering was different. The Pesach offering could only be consumed by one who was circumcised and during the years in the wilderness the Jews did not circumcise their children because it would have been physically taxing to do so while traveling, or in a constant state of preparedness for travel. The people never knew when the cloud of glory would rise above the tabernacle, thus notifying the people that it was time to travel. Therefore, they didn’t circumcise their young and as a result no one could eat the Pesach offering. Also, since the Pesach offering required that it be eaten in one place, “in one household,” and they never knew when they would be required to travel, they could not prepare this sacrifice. That is how the Haggadah answers the wise child: we remind him that one cannot eat the Pesach offering since “nothing can be eaten after the afikomen.” This means you cannot take the Pesach offering and carry it from place to place.