Please deliver these flags to your friends in Atlanta, the Bhutanese refugees about whom you speak so fondly. May they be respected, supported, and encouraged as they move forward in their lives, going from strength to strength.
— Yehudit Liman
On the day I left Israel last month, I stopped by the Weizman Liman Flag Store in Tel Aviv (at the corner of Allenby and Brenner Streets). My twofold mission was to exchange goodbye hugs with my proprietor-friends, Yehudit and Yisrael Liman, and to pick up their gifts for the Bhutanese refugee community in Atlanta.
Yehudit, a blue measuring tape dangling from her neck,
engaged with customers — in the store and on the phone.
engaged with customers — in the store and on the phone.
Yehudit's father, Mr. Weizman, founded the business before Israel was declared a sovereign state in 1948. Smiling briefly for my camera during a pause in her work, she stepped across the hall to the workshop where a seamstress was working.
She returned with five Bhutanese flags that I delivered to five Atlanta Bhutanese families.
Holding their new flag, Rhea and Rewaj Sharma
were born in Nepal to Bhutanese refugees
were born in Nepal to Bhutanese refugees
Ryan Ghimirey's dad, Tulasi, changed into
Bhutanese garb to honor his homeland flag
Bhutanese garb to honor his homeland flag
Yehudit’s deep faith and ethical values drive such deeds of loving kindness, and she has invited me twice before to be her emissary — donating Israeli flags to honor elders, country, and faith and gifting my friend Josh Gomes when he was scoring basketball points for Israel.
Refugees, neighbors, volunteers, friends, and flags are connecting us to our histories, homelands, memories, cultures, and to each other.
My related post
Donating Israeli flags to honor elders, country, and faith
3 comments:
Dear Tamar,
Well come back to Atlanta. I opened your blog and saw the picture of Bhutan flag dancing so happily in Yehudit Liman's hand.
Thanks for spreading our news of our struggle and hope. Thanks for visiting the flag store---for me this is not only a flag store but a UNITED NATION. A presidential salute for WEIZMAN and all his family who kept this store as a living memory for him.
Today, beautiful flags of Bhutan with a holy spirit of this great Liman-Weizman family of Israel are in Atlanta.
The flags have a great value coz they are made with love, kindness, cheerfulness, and lots of past and present memories of Weizman family, Bhutan, Bhutanese Refugees, Tamar's visit to Israel (and the long blog post Tamar wrote, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EEMA. WHERE ARE YOU?).
It is said that you have to pray always. If you don't have time than you have to write the prayers on the flag and hang on top of the mountain. Every time the flag flutters the prayer is spoken itself. This will bring peace and happiness to all the souls both departed and alive, your community, your neighbour, and your country.
With much respect,
Tulasi.
We can make a person happy with such a small deed.
The pictures are beautiful, thanks.
Interesting.
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