Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 61:14

תני אבימי בריה דרבי אבהו יש מאכיל לאביו פסיוני וטורדו מן העולם ויש מטחינו בריחים

The Sages sought jewels for the ephod, at a profit of six-hundred-thousand [gold denarii] - R'Kahana taught: at a profit of eight-hundred-thousand - but as the key was lying under his father's pillow, he did not trouble him. The following year the Holy One, blessed be He, gave him his reward. A red heifer was born to him in his herd.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Num. XIX.');">¹⁷</span> When the Sages of Israel went to him [to buy it], he said to them, 'I know you, that [even] if I asked you for all the money in the world you would pay me. But I ask of you only the money which I lost through my father's honour.' Now, R'Hanina observed thereon, If one who is not commanded [to honour his parents], yet does so, is thus [rewarded], how much more so one who is commanded and does so! For R'Hanina said: He who is commanded and fulfils [the command], is greater than he who fulfils it though not commanded.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. A.Z. (Sonc. ed.) p. 6, n. 1.');">¹⁸</span> R'Joseph<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He was blind.');">¹⁹</span> said: Originally, I thought, that if anyone would tell me that the halachah agrees with R'Judah, that a blind person is exempt from the precepts,I would make a banquet<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'a festival'.');">²⁰</span> for the Rabbis, seeing that I am not obliged, yet fulfil them. Now, however, that I have heard R'Hanina's dictum that he who is commanded and fulfils [the command] is greater than he who fulfils it though not commanded; on the contrary, if anyone should tell me that the halachah does not agree with R'Judah, I would make a banquet for the Rabbis. When R'Dimi came,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. p. 46, n. 6.');">²¹</span> he said: He [Dama son of Nethinah] was once wearing a gold embroidered silken cloak and sitting among Roman nobles, when his mother came, tore it off from him, struck him on the head, and spat in his face, yet he did not shame her. Abimi, son of R'Abbahu recited: One may give his father pheasants as food, yet [this] drives him from the world; whereas another may make him grind in a mill

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