Written in the Book of Adam
Rav Chaim Palaggi, writing on the quality of humility, held up Rav Avrohom ibn Ezra of Izmir as his example of it.
It is told that Rav Avrohom, in his humility, once asked whether he might be written into the book of Adam, the book in which every generation is recorded together with its judges.
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