AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will bring retribution upon His foes, and He will appease His Land and His people.

Gedaliah Aharon Kenig zt’‘l: The sukkah is associated with King David. It is thus called the |Sukkah of David.| It could have been called by another name, like the |Sukkah of Israel| or the |Sukkah of Moses,| yet our sages connect sukkah to David haMelech.

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.