One of the three things (Shabos, Milah and Rosh Chodash) that the Yevonim wanted to destroy is Rosh Chodash in order not to know when to keep the yomim tovim, so the women who light the candles commemorate them in the eight days by not working at the time when the candles are burning as above. The sefer Chagvei Haselai by Rav Yonah Tzvi Horowitz explains that they are against our three basic emunas, Emunas Hashem, Shabbos, Bechira, Milah and Hashgacha, Rosh Chodash.
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