Profane Language

Question:
What is the Jewish view of dirty language?
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Answer:
Foul language is spiritually unhygienic. It is like scrubbing the toilet with your toothbrush, and then using it to brush your teeth.

If you wouldn't do that, then you shouldn't use the same mouth for profanity, that you use for words of friendship, love and prayer.

Like pure water, flowing through rusty pipes, even words of love, when coming from a dirty mouth, cannot help but become stained.
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Speech is a powerful gift. When used correctly, the spoken word can build and strengthen relationships, give comfort and support, and sometimes even save a life.

Our words can lift a heavy heart, and inspire a lost soul. Words of prayer, can reach the heavens; words of care, can go even higher.
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The words we say, do not just disappear. They hover around us, forming the air we breathe, and the atmosphere in which we live. Holy words create, an aura of holiness around us.
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Words that are obscene, slanderous, abusive or untrue, foul the air, like a spiritual pollution. They are no less lethal, than second-hand smoke.

In the bathroom, there are two brushes - a toilet brush, and a tooth brush. It's not hard to keep them separate.

Try to only use the tooth brush.