AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Brent Eickhoff: She explains that her visits to the Philippines "enriched my life" and inspired her to dig deeper into her own heritage. Christine Bunuan’s own holiday traditions developed further upon meeting and marrying her husband, a Jewish man. She now affectionately refers to herself as a "Christmas Jew," someone who celebrates Hanukkah as well as Christmas, in keeping with her new family's traditions.

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.