[Avodah] LED "tealights" for Shabbos candles

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re: <<whether you can make a Beracha or not on electric 
lights
and specifically fluorescent bulbs (the same would apply to 
LEDs).>>

Sorry, LEDs are not the same as fluorescents.  LEDs are cold 
light and therefore not eish which requires heat and light. 
The light from the fluorescent material that coats the tube 
is cold light. Every fluorescent, however, includes two 
sources of bright white incandescent light at the 
electrodes, one at each end of the tube. So, turning on a 
fluorescent is halakhically equivalent to turning on two 
incandescent bulbs and one LED.


David