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The mitzvah of four cups of wine is rabbinic. <ref> chazon ovadia pesach page 1. However, rav shlomo kluger in shu"t kinat sofrim 95 holds that it is from the Torah. </ref>
==What type of wine==
==What type of wine==
# It's preferable to use red wine. <ref> S"A 472:11. Mishna Berura 472:38 says that this is in commemoration of the Jewish blood that was spilled in Mitzrayim. </ref> If there's white wine that's better than the red wine, Ashenazim say that one should have the white wine, while Sephardic practice is to have red wine anyway. <Ref> Rama 472:11 writes that if the white wine is better one can have that instead of the red wine. However, Chazon Ovadyah (Pesach vol 2 pg 11) writes that the Sephardic custom is to use red wine anyway. </ref>
# It's preferable to use red wine. <ref> S"A 472:11. Mishna Berura 472:38 says that this is in commemoration of the Jewish blood that was spilled in Mitzrayim. </ref> If there's white wine that's better than the red wine, Ashenazim say that one should have the white wine, while Sephardic practice is to have red wine anyway. <Ref> Rama 472:11 writes that if the white wine is better one can have that instead of the red wine. However, Chazon Ovadyah (Pesach vol 2 pg 11) writes that the Sephardic custom is to use red wine anyway. </ref>