רַבָּנָן אָמְרֵי, אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא לֹא לְרָעָתָם נָתַתִּי לָהֶם בְּרָכוֹת וּקְלָלוֹת, אֶלָּא לְהוֹדִיעָן אֵיזוֹ דֶּרֶךְ טוֹבָה שֶׁיִּבְחֲרוּ אוֹתָהּ, כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּטְלוּ שָׂכָר, מִנַּיִן, מִמַּה שֶּׁקָּרִינוּ בָּעִנְיָן (דברים יא, כו): רְאֵה אָנֹכִי נֹתֵן לִפְנֵיכֶם וגו'.
The Rabbis say... "HaShem says, he did not give for bad the curses and the blessings... rather to show the people which path o choose which is good, so they receive reward.. how do we know? We see this in the first verse of Re'eh...
Question - Would we possibly come to think that Hashem could give us something like Blessings for the bad? What bad could possibly come from HaShems blessings?
Tangent to get to answer - We will now bring in a statement from Talmud to get a better idea of what's going on here..
We have a serious question on this piece of Talmud because Rebbe was a very very rich man.. how is it possible to say he didn't enjoy this world?
מימות משה ועד רבי לא מצינו תורה וגדולה במקום אחד
From the days of Moses and until the days of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi we do not find unparalleled greatness in Torah knowledge and unparalleled greatness in secular matters, including wealth and high political office, combined in one place, i.e., in a single individual.
We have a serious question here... we know that El and YH-VH are names of mercy.. so why is King David attaching them to retribution here? What time of retribution has mercy??
We tell a story now to understand this.. There is a King with his guards walking through the villages and a young peasant throws a rock at the king... the guards get the boy and tell the King they are ready to kill him.. the King says wait! He doesn't know better.. this boy is used to throwing rocks all day.. Instead... let us teach him and raise him up so he understands what he actually did.. They took the boy and taught him and trained him.. and soon he realized how king and loving this King is.. This person ended up rising in the ranks.. became higher and higher.. surpassing the guards and the courts and the ministers in rank.. the higher he got.. the worse he felt for his actions... the higher he got the worse he felt.. --- so this is why King David said Pslams 52:3 -- he got so high he wanted his punishment to be just realizing how great the King is.
Wait!! We see this in the Torah also!!
This explains Rebbe when he said he didn't enjoy the world... even though he had everything... all the goodness he got was like a punishment to him, the higher one gets the more he sees his blessings as he isn't worthy and like a punishment.
Rabbi Abba said to Rabba bar Mari that there is an apparent contradiction in a verse. It is written: “All the disease that I placed in Egypt I shall not place upon you, for I am the Lord, your Healer” (Exodus 15:26). And since God does not place the disease upon the Jewish people, why is healing necessary?
Thirteen Principles of faith from the Rambam - I believe by complete faith that the Creator, blessed be His name, rewards all who keep His commandments and punishes all those who transgress His commands.
Just like with a body there are medicines that are hard and painful, and others that are pleasant and joyful.. the same with healing of the soul... This is why the Torah says all the evils I put on Egypt I won't put on you.. don't punish us with suffering... punish us by bringing us closer to you!!! This is why it says I am GD your healer!