R. Joseph Capah used this Tachlel to print his Agadata de-Pischa (Jerusalem 1959) which is the official Haggadah of the Yeminite rites and customs. The notes to Avot were never reprinted. R. Capah in his introduction states (p. 8), that R. Yihya Bashiri used the pen name "Avner ben Ner ha-Shironi" and always added notes and commentary to his beautiful masterpieces. (See the newly published Hahmei Teimon, pp. 50-51 for an extensive biography and bibliography of his numerous works.)

The breath and scope of this work reflects that for hundreds of years the Yemenite Jewish communities followed their traditional ways of secular and religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Some customs in the Yemenite prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Ga'on. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Yemen and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgic poetry. All of this rich history is reflected in this work.