Super Supervision

It’s called shmurah because that means “guarded.” The Torah tells us to guard the matzahs to make sure they don’t come intp contact with anything that might make them rise and become chametz. All Passover matzah is guarded from the time the water and flour mix, but your handmade matzah is guarded from the time of harvest.

That’s a big deal. As some Torah authorities point out, if it’s not guarded from the start, who says it’s guarded?