Today Sucks

It's the 9th of Av (Tisha B'Av) again.

This is a very bad day on the Jewish calendar:

To repeat myself, "It's kind of the Spinal Tap drummer of Jewish history."

Here is a sample of its greatest "hits":

• The report of the spies from Canaan, resulting in the people of Israel spending 40 Years in the Desert.
• The destruction of the 1^st Temple.
• The destruction of the 2^nd Temple.
• The Romans razed Betar, killing 100,000 Jews.
• The Romans plowed the temple mount.
• The start of the 1^st Crusade. (You see it as a coming together of Christendom. I see it as a pogrom with years of murder and rape.)
• The expulsion of Jews from England.
• The expulsion of Jews from France.
• The expulsion of Jews from Spain.
• Germany entered the WW I. (Can be legitimately claimed to have directly led to the Shoah)
• Formal approval of the "Final Solution" by the Nazis in 1941.
• Deportations to Treblinka from the Warsaw Ghetto begin in 1942.

I am not a particularly superstitious bloke, but this is not a day to take a flight in a small plane.