The Rosh Yeshiva gives over an important lesson about evil speech in relation to the Fast of Gedalyah, which immediately follows Rosh HaShanah.
Therefore, a person should ask himself, ‘What shall I do? My evil inclination overpowers me.’ If the Holy One goes with him, he will prevail…
The teachers of ethics expounded allegorically: A person must appoint for himself judges and officers in all his “gates,” that is, in the mouth, the eyes, and the ears, to guard himself from sin. At night, one should always make a cheshbon ha’nefesh [accounting of the soul], judging whether he behaved himself properly.
The Rosh Yeshiva relates the account of the Chofetz Chaim’s grandson, about what he witnessed of his grandfather during the month of Elul.