The 3 Big Presents From Hashem

Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says in Berachos that Hashem gave Yisrael three gifts, and every one of them comes only through hardship. Which three, and what does that say about the hard stretches in our own lives? In Elul, Rabbi Asaf Prisman reads Dovid HaMelech's "one thing I ask" through the Chida, and connects it to why Ki Savo punishes us for serving without simcha. A mother, three children and a smuggler with a gun at the Iranian border make the point vivid.