[Avodah] LED "tealights" for Shabbos candles

[Akiva Miller]

I had asked about glow sticks, wondering if they constitute "aish" or not, as regards Meleches Hav'arah. Here's an argument in another direction:

At the s'neh, Moshe Rabenu remarked that it was "bo'er" without being consumed. Apparently, this is a very unusual thing, but not outside of the definition of the words. Perhaps "bo'er" can refer to something which burns without consuming any fuel, whereas "dolek" does require a fuel to burn.

If so, then perhaps lighting a glow stick would be hav'arah, even though it is not hadlakah and no fuel is being used up. (Alternatively, perhaps the fact that a glow stick lasts for only a few hours means that it *does* use up its energy source, even though no heat is produced.)

Akiva Miller

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