AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Tess Chou: SURROGATE FAMILY. Tess Tchou (center) and Ray Tchou (right) are shown in photo on their wedding day together with members of Tess’s Jewish surrogate family — Herb Gross (left) in a short-sleeved barong and Bea Gross (2nd from left).

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.