Friday Elul 17 5703
Chumash: Tavo, Shishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 83-87. Also 49-51.
Tanya: Now, these attributes. (p. 473)...in their traits. (p. 473).
The Alter Rebbe himself was the regular Torah-reader.
Once he was away from Lyozna on the Shabbat of Parsha Tavo, and the Mitteler Rebbe, then not yet Bar Mitzva, heard the Torah- reading from another.
His anguish at the curses in the Tochacha (section of admonition) caused him so much heartache, that on Yom Kippur [1] the Alter Rebbe doubted whether his son would be able to fast.
When they asked the Mitteler Rebbe - "Don't you hear this Parsha every year?" [2] - he replied, "When father reads, one hears no curses."
Notes:
A few weeks later.
Lit. "Isn't this Parsha read every year?"