EXOD394 This idea of man's obligation to create in the world is not just a good idea or an extrapolation. The word in the Torah usually mistranslated as "work" is "Melacha" (i.e., the activities that are forbidden on Shabbat). But this word is used in only three in contexts in the entire Torah-regarding Creation by God, what is forbidden for man to do on Shabbat, and the building of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. (Genesis 2:2, Exodus 20:10, Exodus 36:4-5). Thus, what God did to create the world is Melacha. But right before the Torah forbids Jews to do Melacha on Shabbat, it says that man must to do Melacha during the other six days.[This verse] (According to many commentaries, this is a command rather than only a dispensation of allowing men to do this kind of activity.) If so, man is commanded to create, to invent, and to come up with new ideas and new inventions in the world, just like God.