Musar for Bava Kamma 18:1

אילימא שליש ביתו אלא מעתה אי איתרמי ליה תלתא מצותא ליתיב לכוליה ביתיה

You could hardly suggest 'a third of one's possessions,' for if so when one chanced to have three commandments [to perform at one and the same time] would one have to give up the whole of one's possessions? — R. Zera therefore said: For [performing a commandment in] an exemplary manner one should go up to a third of [the ordinary expense involved in] the observance thereof.

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