Why does the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition hold that God is separate from creation?
“The radically immanent sense of the divine in Jewish mystical Kabbalah is said to have inspired Spinoza’s formulation of pantheism. However, Spinoza’s views have not been accepted in Orthodox Judaism. On the other hand, Schopenhauer asserted that Spinoza’s pantheism was a result of his reading of Malebranche: Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. (Recherches de la vérité, Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes. – Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. I, “Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real” Additionally, the Baal Shem Tov, the founde
