This is a beautiful example of the printer’s art and use of spacing, ornaments and fleurons.
It consists of novellae (chiddushim) to Kiddushin and Ketubbot (incomplete) by Rabbi Abraham b. Saul Broda, who died in 1717. He was born in Bunzlau (Bohemia) and served as rabbi in Lichtenstadt and in Raudnitz. In 1693 he was appointed head of a yeshiva in Prague but left after a dispute with other rabbis of the city. In 1709 he was appointed rabbi of Metz, and in 1713 of Frankfort, where he remained until his death. In these last two cities he established yeshivos (talmudic schools) which attracted many students.
Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschuetz paid tribute to Broda’s contribution to education and teaching: “He was remarkably successful in learning, teaching, and disseminating Torah, and most contemporary scholars of renown were his disciples.” Among his outstanding students were Rabbi Nethanel Weil, Rabbi Jonah Landsofer, and Rabbi Samuel Helman of Metz.
(This provides the slight Anglo-Jewish connection, because Dayan Samuel Yitzchok Hillman of the London Beth Din was named after his ancestor Rabbi Samuel Helman.)
Rabbi Broda’s novellae (or chidushim) were noted by his students, who quoted them in their works, or published them together with their own works. His most important work was Eshel Avraham (1747), novellae on the tractates Pesahim, Hullin, and Bava Batra.
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