Thanks for getting right back to the comment, although I cannot attest to it’s elegance, what I ended up doing locally (outside of the script) that addressed the issue was as follows.
I commented although I am sure you are capable of figuring it out on your own .
Let me know if I went wrong on anything

Thanks again..

Here is the script – using multiple hebrew keyboard input fields as example.
//initially set the value to true so that when the popup is first clicked on, it does not dissapear
mouse_inside=true;
//calling the hebrew keyboard on all fields with the hebrew-input class
$(‘.hebrew-input’).hebrewKeyboard();
//make the keyboard disappear when the input field loses focus – except when the mouse
//is hovering over the keyboard.
$(‘.hebrew’).focusout(function() {
//simple function to set mouse_inside based on it hovering over the textpopup area
// I suppose the following mouse test could have been done on the document.ready area, but I see no //harm in keeping it local
$(‘.ui-textpopup-box’).hover(function(){
mouse_inside=true;
}, function(){
mouse_inside=false;
});
//hides the popup when mouse is no longer inside
if(! mouse_inside) $(‘.ui-textpopup-box’).hide();
//once the popup is hidden, change the mouse_inside back to true, otherwise the next time the popup //is called, it will disappear as soon as it is clicked on
mouse_inside=true;
});

Thanks.