Ki Tavo - Blessings and Curses: Making sense of our troubling texts

(2) All these blessings shall come upon you and take effect, if you will but heed the word of the LORD your God: (9) The LORD will establish you as His holy people, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. (13)—if only you obey and faithfully observe the commandments of the LORD your God that I enjoin upon you this day, (14) and do not deviate to the right or to the left from any of the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day and turn to the worship of other gods. (15) But if you do not obey the LORD your God to observe faithfully all His commandments and laws which I enjoin upon you this day, all these curses shall come upon you and take effect:

(1) The LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. (2) I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing. (3) I will bless those who bless you And curse him that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you.”

(1) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Walk in My ways and be blameless. (2) I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will make you exceedingly numerous.” (3) Abram threw himself on his face; and God spoke to him further, (4) “As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You shall be the father of a multitude of nations. (5) And you shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I make you the father of a multitude of nations. (6) I will make you exceedingly fertile, and make nations of you; and kings shall come forth from you. (7) I will maintain My covenant between Me and you, and your offspring to come, as an everlasting covenant throughout the ages, to be God to you and to your offspring to come. (8) I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding. I will be their God.”

(56) And she who is most tender and dainty among you, so tender and dainty that she would never venture to set a foot on the ground, shall begrudge the husband of her bosom, and her son and her daughter, (57) the afterbirth that issues from between her legs and the babies she bears; she shall eat them secretly, because of utter want, in the desperate straits to which your enemy shall reduce you in your towns. (63) And as the LORD once delighted in making you prosperous and many, so will the LORD now delight in causing you to perish and in wiping you out; you shall be torn from the land that you are about to enter and possess.

(20) See, O LORD, and behold, To whom You have done this! Alas, women eat their own fruit, Their new-born babes! Alas, priest and prophet are slain In the Sanctuary of the Lord!

...there are places where they skip Parashat Behukotai and Parashat Ki Tavo rather than read the rebukes contained in those portions. And this is a terrible thing to do, first of all because they do not fulfill the mitzvah of Keriat HaTorah which is an ancient enactment of Moshe, and also because of the violation of the spirit of the verse "do not despite the ethical guidance of God, my child, and do not reject God's rebuke." Furthermore, it's an illogical error. If you don't read the Torah and don't want to look at the rebukes is that any guarantee that they will not occur? The opposite is more likely, God forbid! This is similar to someone who was warned by his friends not to walk along a certain path for there are many pitfalls and obstacles there and he responded that he does not fear any pitfalls since he has a thick mask to wear over his eyes so he won't see them....is there any foolishness greater than this?