AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Jewish Refugees in the Philippines during WWII

"It is my hope and, indeed, my expectation that the people of the Philippines will have, in the future, every reason to be glad that, when the time of need came, their country was willing to extend a hand of welcome." ~ President Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina

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.