"See I have placed before you life and death, good and evil, the blessing and the curse" in other words God tells us as the great Kabbalist the Shalah Hakodesh, Rabbi Yitzchok Halevi Horwitz says, when you listen to God, it’s not that you get rewarded, but it’s like if you listen to your doctor, the medicine is simply the cause of your healing, and if you don’t listen, you can expect the opposite