[Avodah] tisha baav is a moed

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Micha
> Eikhah 1:15, "... qara alay mo'eid libhor bachurai ..."

> Peshat clearly is about the lives lost during the churban itself, not a
> future festival.

Indeed I concur - the peshat is as Micha noted..

Hypothesis about this "future festival"

Since we pray on Seder Night 
"... Miyagon lesimcha
And me'eivel leYT

So this sad day which during the pre-moshiach epoch is a "mo-ed" for Edom

Will be - during the Messianic era - turned into a "Mo-ed" festival
for Israel.

Like Purim, Tisha B'av will undergo a parallel "v'nahafoch hu"
 
So the peshat is as Micha noted
And perhaps the passuq is a REMEZ - pointing towards this future Mo-ed
bimheira beyameinu.

May we merit Nechama
RRW
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