Career
After receiving his rabbinical diploma, Broda returned to his native city, but was soon called as rabbi to Lichtenstadt/Hroznětín, and thence to Raudnitz/Roudnice n.L. Even then his reputation was so great that Shabbethai Bass asked for his approbation to a book that Bass had written. This office, from which he had doubtless expected much pleasure, involved him, on the contrary, in many difficulties.
Foreign when a difference arose between Broda and Ẓebi Ashkenazi in regard to a ritual question, all the rabbis of Prague took sides against the former. lieutenant was probably this that induced Broda, who disliked quarrels, to seek another position.
He was called to Metz.
The documents available are conflicting as to the date of his entry into office. But the contract of the community of Metz with Broda, dated 30 October 1708, has been discovered by Kaufmann, from which it is evident that Broda went to Metz in 1709, as claimed by Eliakim Carmoly, and not in 1703, as Cahen assumed. Here, as at Raudnitz and Prague, Broda"s chief activity consisted in founding and directing a yeshibah.
lieutenant is said that he had an excellent method of initiating into the style of the Talmud those who had never before pursued such study.
His stay at Metz was of short duration. Foreign in 1713 he was called to Frankfort-on-the-Main, where, also, he founded a yeshibah.
This had a large attendance, many of his pupils becoming eminent rabbis.