In my view, there are candles that are more frequent than others because of their position.

Since it was ruled and accepted that the order of adding candles always begins from right to left, there will be positions in which candles appear more frequently than in other positions.

The candle called “the second,” because of its position, appears 7 times. The one after it, called “the third,” appears only 6 times.

And if you say that this applies only where there is no other consideration, then how would you explain the matter of a tallit and tefillin? Putting on the tallit comes before tefillin because it is worn 7 days, whereas tefillin are put on 6 days. But one could have said here that there is another consideration—for example, that tefillin are holier than a tallit, and therefore it would be fitting to give precedence to the holier item.

One ascends in holiness

Amir, that answer doesn’t seem relevant to me.

Suppose tzitzit has a level of holiness a and tefillin has b. Of course, we know that b>a.

Every day, whether you put on the tallit first or the tefillin first, your level of holiness will be a+b every day. The answer that supposedly says that first we are at holiness level a and then rise to b sounds irrelevant, because you do in fact reach a+b every weekday.

With Hanukkah candles it is relevant, because if the holiness level of a candle is c, then each day you have c(n+1), where n ranges from 0 to 7, meaning the level of holiness rises each day.