 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"; it 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; for in 1713 he was called to Frankfort-on-the-Main, where, also, he founded a "yeshibah."