Levi Weingarten, 4, looks at pictures in a prayer book at his home.
A siddur, or prayer book, sits on a table next to ribbon being used to decorate for Tu BiShvat, the Israeli Festival of Trees.
Levi washes his older brother's prayer cup before Shabbos. Avremel, 14, lives with his cousins in Arkansas where he attends Hebrew school.
Chani Weingarten, 11, braids fresh challah dough before Shabbos.
Candles will be lit at sundown at the start of Shabbos.
Chani looks around frantically as she rushes to set the table before Shabbos.
Rabbi Hendel Weingarten, right, holds the microphone for Levi to say a prayer before dinner at Chani's bat mitzvah.
Levi runs up the stairs to look for his father and older brother.
From left to right, Chani, 12, holds her youngest brother Levi, 4, while their dad Rabbi Hendel Weingarten and other brother Gavi, 8, tend to Levi's scraped knee at their home in East Lansing, Wednesday, April 17, 2019.
Bracha Leah Weingarten stirs a version of a Jewish stew called cholent in preparation for Passover. Her oldest son Avremel who is home from Arkansas, helps peel potatoes.
Tables are set a Chani's bat mitzvah.
Chani dances with her friends at her bat mitzvah.
Bracha Leah, left, with her daughter Chani at her bat mitzvah.
Chani and her friends are first to the buffet table to serve themselves dinner.
Chani's friends tie fabric napkins together to make a jump rope for Chani.
Levi dances with friends and family. Chani's brothers and father were the only men accepted to attend her bat mitzvah, per tradition.
Chani is hoisted up in the air on a chair by her friends at her bat mitzvah.
