AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

||geographic boundaries of Filipinas: 7,108 islands (7,116 if you count the islands in the Spratlys that are within its Exclusive Economic Zone; 7,117 if you include Sabah in the count).||

Rodel Rodis: Diaspora, from the Greek word for scatter, once referred exclusively to the Babylonian dispersal of the Jews from Israel but is now used widely to describe other historic mass dispersions of people with common roots, including the more than 11 million Filipinos in the Diaspora.

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.