AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Matthue Roth (@matthue): Not that I don’t love my day job, but if I could do absolutely nothing but read The Hobbit aloud to my kids, I would in a second.

Eunice Malijan, Hobbit House, Manila, Philippines: Filipinos are like Hobbits because they are a peace-loving, party people, who love to eat, drink, sing, dance, and laugh; who are secure in their visions, seeing well above the ordinary turn of events, giving hope to a cynical and litigious world, preferring, instead, the confines of The Shire.

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.