Commentary for Zevachim 148:2

ואיבעית אימא סבר לה כר' אליעזר

Resh Lakish said: If a cask of terumah was mixed up with a hundred casks [of hullin], and one of them fell into the Salt Sea, all of them become permitted, for we assume: The one which fell was the forbidden one. Now, the rulings of both R. Nahman and Resh Lakish are necessary. For if [we learnt] from R. Nahman's [ruling], I would say: It applies to idolatry only, because it has no remedy to permit it; but in the case of terumah, which has a remedy, I would say that it is not so. While if [we learnt] from Resh Lakish, I would say: It applies only to a cask, whose fall is noticeable; but as for a ring, whose fall [loss] is not noticeable, I would say that it is not so. Thus they are both necessary.

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