AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
"Jessica Hagedorn was born in Manila, Philippines to a Scottish-Irish-Filipina mother and a Spaniard-Filipino father with one Chinese ancestor. She received the American Book Award for her novel, Dogeaters."

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.