And 3-year-old twins Chana and Zelda Eber celebrated the night of Nov. 16 by lighting the candles and saying a prayer, not by blowing them out and making a wish. It’s a Jewish girl’s rite of passage that she light Sabbath candles when she turns 3. According to Jewish tradition,

matriarch Sarah lit the first candles for Shabbat the Hebrew word for the weekly day of rest in her tent. Miraculously, her candles burned from one week to the next. The same happened when her daughter-in-law, Rebekah, began lighting the candles after Sarah’s death.

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