Tisha B'Av: The Gift of Speech

His son lost the ability to speak, so  he says to Rabbi Sraya we're going to   the States and there's a special doctor there,  he's the only one who says he performed this   surgery in the past and he can restore the  ability to speak. He wrote down his name,   The father leaves, and Rabbi Sraya  starts crying and they ask him Rabbi,,   why are you crying now? Rabbi Sraya says you  know I'm thinking imagine this kid gets to   Boston before the operation starts the surgeon  says to him, in an hour and a half you'll be   able to start speaking but I'm only going to  do it on one condition, you have to promise me   never speak 1 harmful word! Is it possible that  at that point, this kid says to the surgeon,   "in that case forget about it, leave me as is"  WHat?! Who would do that?! Says Rabbi Sraya God   is that surgeon. And every single day He says you  know what I don't care what you did yesterday. I'm   giving you back again the ability to speak. Just  asking you, don't speak evil speech, no scoffing   no lying, make sure you use this mouth, for Torah  and good deeds, for complimenting each other.  Can you do it for me? and instead of coming the  following day and say well you didn't listen,   I take that away. God comes back again and gives  us another 24 hours! You have to make sure that we   use this tool for prayer for making people and God happy if the Holy temple was destroyed   because we didn't use our mouth properly,  God willing, it will be rebuilt when we do.