Commentary for Lamentations 1:15
סִלָּ֨ה כָל־אַבִּירַ֤י ׀ אֲדֹנָי֙ בְּקִרְבִּ֔י קָרָ֥א עָלַ֛י מוֹעֵ֖ד לִשְׁבֹּ֣ר בַּחוּרָ֑י גַּ֚ת דָּרַ֣ךְ אֲדֹנָ֔י לִבְתוּלַ֖ת בַּת־יְהוּדָֽה׃ (ס)
The Lord has trampled all my mighty men in my midst, He summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a wine press the virgin daughter of Judah.
Rashi on Lamentations
Trampled. He trampled and trod, an expression of, “pave, pave סֹלּוּ the road.”51Yeshayahuu 62:10.
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Rashi on Lamentations
He has proclaimed a gathering against me. A gathering of troops to come against me.52Alternatively, ‘He has proclaimed to break [מועד] me.’ (Yein Horekach) And our Rabbis expounded what they expounded. Tammuz of that year was a full month [=30 days], of the second year from their Exodus from Egypt. Therefore, the return of the spies occurred on the night of the ninth of Av, upon which their weeping was established for generations.53Maseches Ta’anis 29a. According to this explanation, מועד means ‘a set time.’
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Rashi on Lamentations
[As with] a wine press, [God] has trodden. An expression of killing, as in, “I alone have trodden a winepress,”54Yeshayahuu 63:3. as one treads upon grapes to extract their wine, so did He trample the women to extract their blood.
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