“One hundred and eighty days” – the last day was like the first day. There was an incident involving a certain man whose name was Barbohin. Our Sages went to him regarding matters of fundraising for the Sages. They heard his son saying to him: ‘What are we eating today?’ He said to him: ‘Endives.’ ‘From those sold at one per maneh3A small silver coin. or from those sold at two per maneh?’ He said to him: ‘From those sold at two per maneh, as those are withered and inexpensive.’ They said: ‘What are we doing going to this [person]? Let us go and do our business in the city and afterward we will come to him.’ They went and did their business and came to him. They said: ‘Give us a donation for charity.’ He said to them: ‘Go to the one who is in the house and she will give you a modius4A Roman measure of volume, around nine liters. of dinars.’ They went to the wife and said to her: ‘Your husband said that you should give us a modius of dinars.’ She said to them: ‘What did he say to you, heaping or level?’ They said to her: ‘He did not specify.’ She said: ‘I will give you heaping, and if my husband asks why, I will say that I gave it from the account of my marriage settlement.’They came to him and said to him: ‘May your Creator fill all you lack.’ He said to them: ‘What did she give you, level or heaping?’ They said to him: ‘We said to her that you did not specify, and she said: I will give you heaping, and if my husband says why, [tell him] I gave the extra from my marriage settlement.’ He said to them: ‘Indeed, that is what I intended to give to you. Why didn’t you come to me before?’They said to him: ‘We heard your servant, who said to you: What are we eating today? You said to him: Endives. He said to you: From those sold at one per maneh or from those sold at two per maneh? You said to him: From those sold at two per maneh, as those are withered and inexpensive. We said: A person who has all this money, would he eat endives sold at two per maneh?’ He said: ‘For myself, I am permitted [to be frugal]; however, regarding the commandments of my Creator I am unable and I am not permitted.’Bar Lofyani was marrying his daughter [and the procession was] from Tzippori to Akko. He established stands dispensing wine from Tzippori to Akko and with golden lamps on either side. They said: They did not move from there until he fed them lentils from the threshing floor and gave them wine from the winepress to drink. Rabbi Avun said: And only in charred pots.5They had already finished all the other food and wine, and all he had left to use were charred pots to serve the last of the food. However, here [at Aḥashverosh’s banquet], the last day was like the first day.