Creativity

The Torah, Judaism's foundational text, begins with creative acts, as God makes the world over six days. The same chapter describes how the first humans are created in the image of God and tasked with the project of creating new life and filling the earth. Texts throughout the Jewish textual tradition speak of the importance of imbuing religious practice—from prayer to Torah study—with creative spirit, the nature of creative work and its prohibition on Shabbat, and ownership rights of those who create.