AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Hans Hoeffler: There’s a war coming. We’re going to send you as far away as we can. We’re going to send you to the Philippines. 
Margot Cassel Pins: I went to Philippine Women’s University. I can only say I returned to them and it was for me, returning home to love and care and attention. It was overwhelming.
Gordon Lester: The Philippines saved my life.
Frank Ephraim, Escape to Manila: From Nazi Tyranny to Japanese Terror: The Filipinos were incredibly kind and treated him extremely well. There was an element of something so redemptive.

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.