Commentary for Ketubot 197:6

כי תיבעי לך דאמר ליה זיל זבין לי כורא ואזיל וזבין ליה ליתכא מאי מי אמרינן א"ל דטבא לך עבדי לך דאי לא מצטרכי לך זוזי לא מצית הדרת ביה

If you have a question, it is where he said to the agent, “Go and sell for me a kor” and he sold for him only one letekh. Do we [in such a case] say that [the agent] might tell the man, “I have done what is good for you, for [had I sold the full kor, and] you were no longer in need of money you could not have retracted,”

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