In our first apartment, there were many insects and small bugs that infested our sefarim, and that’s why we moved. I gave all my sefarim in for an expensive extermination process using gas, but even after all this hishtadlus, we discovered these miniature enemies in our new apartment as well.
I called an exterminator, but a year later the bugs were back – small and terrifically annoying.
My wife decided to try a new strategy. Every time she cleaned the house, she said Mizmor l’sodah as thanks for the fact that she didn’t meet up with any insect. And if she did see one, she said Mizmor l’sodah for the fact that there was only one and not more.
She started doing this consistently, and then someone recommended that she try using fly-repellent spray. It worked – the spray got rid of those insects! Baruch Hashem, the insects disappeared, but the minhag remained: We give thanks and praise to Hashem for our clean, insect-free house. Hari’u laHashem kol ha’aretz!
