AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
"Here you’re just as likely to hear Mandarin, Russian or Tagalog as Hebrew. But surely not Yiddish – right? Well, wrong actually. Tucked away on the fifth floor, past the 'Only Love' Filipino dating agency and a dingy employment office promising factory jobs in Ukraine, is the Living Yiddish Museum and Library. 'Filipino kids, Arab kids, Russian kids from mixed backgrounds choose Yiddish,' says Pollin Galay. 'Yiddish is for everyone.'" ~ JOANNA PARASZCZUK

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.