1. Shmura matzo is made from wheat that is guarded from contamination by chametz from the time of summer harvest to its baking into matzos five to ten months later.

2. It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly Antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides.: For the few days of Passover, chametz and matzah are Antithetical.: In performing the physical act of turning from one vast panel to the next, the viewer felt the moment of pause between the two Antithetical extremes represented.