A Kli Cheres in the Sukka

Once, as a young child, Rav Mordechai was in the sukka talking with some boys his age, and their conversation was full of jokes and boyish, childish matters. When his father, the Trisker Maggid, saw this, he grew very upset and scolded him. "You should know that I worked very hard to draw down my father's neshoma into you, and now here you stand chatting about idle matters, in the sukka of all places. Don't you know that someone who speaks idly is like an earthenware vessel, a kli cheres, and the halocha is that no earthenware keilim are allowed in the sukka?"

Hearing this, the young child began to sob uncontrollably. "There, there," the Trisker Maggid consoled him, "the din is also that regarding a kli cheres, sheviroson zehu taharoson. Breaking them purifies them from any defilement and tuma. Your crying and broken heart has purified you. This is sufficient."