Recasting Metal Vessels

[This ordinance of Simeon ben Shetaḥ with regard to the impurity of metal vessels in general] was only needed with regard to previous impurity [reassumed by metal vessels after they are recast]. As R. Judah said [that] Rav said: [There was] an incident involving [Simeon ben Shetaḥ’s sister,] Shelamzion the queen, who made a wedding feast for her son. All of her vessels became impure, and she broke them and gave them to the smith, and he welded [the broken vessels together] and made new vessels. And the sages said: [What she did was ineffective, as all the vessels] will reassume their previous impurity.