The water in the tank can be pure, but if the pipe that carries it is stuffed or corroded, you won’t get to that clean water.

Your tefillos are so holy, and there are pipes meant to carry them to Heaven; your mouths.

And when a person lies or slanders, when he or she uses his/her mouth to hurt another, he or she destroys those pipes.

The ocean is filled with clean, pure water.

Let that holiness get to where it’s meant to be, let those pipes be perfect and whole.

~ R’ Pesach Krohn