כלי מתכות. פשוטיהן ומקבליהן. טמאין. נשברו טהרו. חזר ועשה מהן כלי חזרו לטומאתן הישנה. רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר. לא לכל טומאה. אלא לטומאת הנפש:
Metal vessels, whether they are flat or form a receptacle, are susceptible to impurity. On being broken they become clean. If they were re-made into vessels they revert to their former impurity. Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel says: this does not apply to every form of impurity but only to that contracted from a corpse.