Sunday Menachem Av 7 5703
Chumash: Va'etchanan, First Parsha with Rashi.
Tehillim: 39-43.
Tanya: I. We begin (p. 389)...and the body of the soul. (p. 391).
The (sacred) letter beginning Potchin Bivracha [1] was written ten years before the letter which begins Katonti. [2]
Notes:
"We begin with a blessing..."; this letter is the first in Igeret Hakodesh ("Sacred Epistles"), Part IV of Tanya, and is the Tanya Torah-lesson for the day.
"I have become small..."; second letter in Igeret Hakodesh, written by the Alter Rebbe on his return from his arrest in Petersburg (in 5559).