![]() People said what she was doing was so neat. Wasserman says the salon staff and other clients “made her feel really special. I taught her to tell people why she has such long hair.”įinally Zoey’s big day arrived. “People would comment and say her hair is so pretty. “There are children with no hair, and this is going to help them,” she told her daughter. Wasserman explained to Zoey the significance of donating her hair in terms a 5-year-old could understand. One morning her mother recalls running short on time to finish the brushing ritual and sending Zoey to school with a brush and a sticky note that read: “Will someone please do my hair?” “It was kind of too hard when it was long,” she recalls. Zoey showed patience, but not always the patience of a saint. “I needed to wash for 20 hours,” Zoey says earnestly.Īfter washing and conditioning, she routinely sat for a lengthy brushing session before having her hair pulled back into a ponytail. Those years involved an intense regimen to make sure the hair was well maintained. said, ‘I want to do what Hannah did.’ We did have to wait a couple of years” for her hair to grow long enough. “She looks up to Hannah,” Wasserman says. Just 3 at the time, Zoey wanted to do a good deed like her friend. Two years ago, Hannah, then 8, donated her ponytail to a charity that makes wigs for children suffering from hair loss (often due to chemotherapy). Zoey’s inspiration came from her friend Hannah Levine, a student at the Wornick Jewish Day School in Foster City. “It’s called a mitzvah when you share stuff,” Zoey says. They taught her about sharing and doing nice things for other people.” ![]() “She had Jewish studies at school, Shabbat at school and Shabbat at home,” her mom says. That’s where she learned the meaning of mitzvahs, says her mother. Zoey just graduated from the temple’s Gal Ilan preschool.
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