AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
As of 2005, Filipino Jews number 18,500 people. As of 2011, Metro Manila boasts the largest Jewish community in the Philippines which, as of 2008, consisted of roughly 100 families. It is estimated that there are 100,000 Filipinos in Israel.

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.