AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם
Danny Katz: The wedding was delightful: a cross-cultural blend of the groom's Jewish heritage and the bride's Filipino background so at times it was like Hawaiian Theme-Night at a rabbinical convention. There was a ukulele wedding-march, a traditional chuppah-canopy, a Filipino candle-lighting ceremony, a Jewish wineglass-smashing ritual, and the bride wore a stunning headpiece of tropical purple flowers while the groom wore a stunning face-piece of Semitic regrowth-stubble.

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.