Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 25:7

תא שמע שני אחין אחד עני ואחד עשיר והניח להן אביהן מרחץ ובית הבד עשאן לשכר השכר לאמצע עשאן לעצמו הרי עשיר אומר לעני

Shall he then remain unmarried? And has not the world been created only for propagation, as it is written, He created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XLV, 18. ');">⁶</span> No; what we do is to compel his master to consent to emancipate him, and we give him a bond for half his value. Beth Hillel hearing this retracted their opinion and adopted the ruling of Beth Shammai'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hag. 2a. Only because of Beth Shammai's argument, but not because they recognised any right to say, 'You name' etc. ');">⁷</span> — This is not quite a case in point, because while the slave can say, 'I will name a price,' he cannot [at any time] say to the master, 'You name a price'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because as an Israelite, he cannot be sold, like an ordinary slave, for more than six years. ');">⁸</span> Come and hear: If there are two brothers, one rich and one poor, to whom their father leaves a bath and an olive press, if he made them for renting, then the brothers share the rental, but if he made them for his own use, then the rich brother can say to the poor one,

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