AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Jordan Shapiro: I'd argue that we desperately need to teach kids to value the humanities and the arts as more than just literacy, history, and imagination--that it is not just about learning to read. We also want kids to know that living a meaningful life requires that particular kind of precision and elegance found only in metaphor and poesis; this is the scaffolding for empathy and compassion.

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.