AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: "yo-yo" derives from the northern Philippine Ilokano language word "yóyo."


Meet Pedro Flores: Father of the Yo-Yo: The word yo-yo is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and means “come back.” In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.

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.