AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
"With my hero, David Crystal, for whom language is breath and books are speech — he has written over 100 books on language, including The Encyclopedia of Language, and is the coolest dude I know. This picture was taken in the delightful Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch where I discovered that David and I are also twins — at least, our jackets are." ~ BH

Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.