ח אי הכי האי מדבריהם מדבריו מיבעי ליה
8 thereof can be saved in purity, one must save it. But if not, R'Eliezer ruled: Let it descend and be defiled, yet let him not defile it with [his own] hands: R'Joshua said: He may even defile it with his own hands.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the clean terumah runs into the hullin, it becomes unclean too, and then the mixture is forbidden to priest and lay Israelite alike, unless there is one hundred times as much hullin as terumah. In the present case only unclean vessels are ready to hand to catch the terumah, which would save the hullin below. Both agree that if there is time to go, procure clean vessels and save at least a rebi'ith of the terumah, this must be done, though in the meantime some terumah will descend and render all the hullin forbidden. But where there is no time to save even a rebi'ith, we have a controversy. R. Eliezer holds that even so it must be permitted to descend, though it will thereby be defiled in any case, rather than that we should deliberately defile it by catching it in unclean vessels. But R. Joshua maintains that since it will all be defiled in any case, we may defile it ourselves, in order to save the hullin below. R. Meir's ruling in the Mishnah is based on R. Joshua's.');"><sup>9</sup></span>