The hand of God animating Adam just by a touch is not how Adam’s creation is described in the Torah. Genesis 2:6 reads: “And Hashem God formed the man of dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the soul of life; and man became a living being.”

However, the divine touch is the way the great medieval Italian artist Michelangelo imagined the “Creation of Adam” and that image is the best known of his paintings gracing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.