Titus And The Mosquito

The gimmar writes when he's talking about the destruction of the beta mcdash that Tus [music] was the general that destroyed the beta mikdash. Hashem punished him. He punished him. Tus went to a foreign island and he was on this island and all of a sudden a little yeouch a little bug. I don't know if it's a gnat or if it's a mosquito or a fly went into his nose and up into his head and started pecking away in his head and pecking away in his head and it was driving Titos crazy until one day Titos was passing by a blacksmith and the bang of the blacksmith somehow the rhythm of the hammer calmed down the fly calm down the mosquito and he said wow this is working so he said I'm going to hire a blacksmith the next day hired a blacksmith and the day after and the day after and every day hired a blacksmith and it worked and it calmed down the mosquito mosquito and it calmed down the pecking and the mosquito stopped pecking away and it worked for 30 days until after 30 days the mosquito got used to the banging and even with the blacksmith he went on pecking away until eventually it killed Titos and when Titos died they did an autopsy on him and they opened up his head and they saw this little mosquito had turned into a robust bird with iron claws and metal beak I think this gimmada is so relevant to today have you ever had a day that's a regular wonderful normal day and all of a sudden a little thought goes into your mind. Maybe it comes from a text message. Maybe it comes from a comment somebody said or an email or a meeting you were in and all of a sudden that little thought goes into your brain and it [music] starts pecking and pecking and pecking away. A lot of people have this disease and they just they're thinking and they're thinking and they're anticipating what does this text message mean and that the guy didn't respond. Does that mean I'm in trouble? Maybe I'm in big trouble. And before you know it, the fly is pecking away in our brain just like Tus. And then what do we [music] do? We turn on noise. You ever go into a car and just stay quiet the whole time? Never. either on the phone or turn on the radio, turn on music, turn on the sh, you turn on something because you can't just listen to nothing because your brain can't handle all the noise that's inside. And sometimes it gets to a point that even that doesn't help. And the music could be on is not helping you because the noise in your brain is so loud and all of a sudden a little mosquito turns into a robust bird. Every time you see something you shouldn't see, it's entering that mosquito into your brain and it starts to peck away and creates all kinds of thoughts and fears and [music] worries and temptations and and mistakes and problems and disappointments. All things you don't want to feel when a picture comes or an image comes in your vision. Get that mosquito [music] away. You don't need the pain. You don't need the frustration. You don't need the disappointment. You don't need the confusion that that [music] you can cause.