Commentary for Menachot 170:19

אין מביאין לא מבית הזבלים: והתניא אין מביאין אנפקטן

'Has this man really got<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Adopting' the reading as in MS.M. .');">²¹</span> a hundred myriad [manehs'] worth of oil? I see that the Jews have merely made game of me'. As soon as he reached his home town that man's maidservant brought out to him a bowl of hot water and he washed his hands and his feet. She then brought out to him a golden bowl of oil and he dipped in it his hands and his feet, thus fulfilling the verse, 'And let him dip his feet in oil'. After they had eaten and drunk the man measured out to the agent a hundred myriad [manehs'] worth of oil, and then asked, 'Do you perhaps need any more oil? ' 'I do, indeed', replied the agent; 'but I have no more money with me'.' Well, if you wish to buy more, take it, and I will go back with you for the money', said the man. He then measured out for him another eighteen myriad [manehs'] worth of oil. It is said that he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The agent. Lit., 'that man did not leave out either a horse . . which he did not hire'.');">²²</span> hired every horse, mule, camel and ass that he could find in all the Land of Israel. When he reached his home town all the townspeople came out to meet him and applaud him.' Do not applaud me', he said to them, 'but this man, my companion. who measured out for me a hundred myriad [manehs'] worth of oil, and whom I still owe eighteen myriad [manehs]'. This illustrates the verse, There is that pretendeth himself rich, yet hath nothing; there is that pretendeth himself poor, yet hath great wealth.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Prov. XIII, 7.');">²³</span> ONE MAY NOT BRING IT FROM A MANURED FIELD etc. But has it not been taught that one may not bring anfakinon

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