Last week, the stock market took its biggest hit in three years. The today, after news of the S&P downgrade, it got clobbered even further. This all happened on the cusp of the saddest, least auspicious day of the Jewish calendar year - Tisha B'Av. Some of the most cataclysmic events in Jewish history occurred on this day - murder, destruction, exile, expulsion - the worst moments our people have ever known.

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