AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Yeshayahu: 58:9: Then you shall call, and G-d will answer

Before waking up, heard a mantra of "being white is like a holy place" then found my eyeglasses beneath my left hip in tact. Woke up to a rainy day.

"Hod: 'Glory.' The sefirah of the left hip and leg, with the quality of sensing and processing emotional information." ~ Tamar Frankel

"HOD means splendor. It is related to the word HODa’ah (admission)" ~ Chaim Kramer

"The eighth [rectification of the sefirot of malchut] is 'thanksgiving' [in Hebrew, 'hodaya']. Through this sefira [hod] King David would praise G-d with the words 'Praise [in Hebrew, 'hodu'] be G-d'. This praise is certainly connected to the sefira of hod." ~ FROM THE TEACHINGS OF RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI; TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY SHMUEL-SIMCHA TREISTER, BASED ON METOK MIDEVASH

"The song sung by all Israel when they saw the Egyptian army drown in the Red Sea started with the word 'az' spelled alef-zayin. The numerical value of this word is 1 + 7 = 8, and it is therefore connected with the eighth sefira of hod." ~ FROM THE TEACHINGS OF RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI; TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY SHMUEL-SIMCHA TREISTER, BASED ON METOK MIDEVASH

"The ultimate completion of the lamp lighting ceremony is on the eighth day representing the unification of the sefirot in hod." ~ FROM THE TEACHINGS OF RABBI SHIMON BAR YOCHAI; TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY SHMUEL-SIMCHA TREISTER, BASED ON METOK MIDEVASH

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.