one of the reasons I'm still religious despite my lifelong battle with faith is that the fantasy aesthetic of judaism is too good. You're telling me a faceless formless god made a covenant with my ancestors bound in sacred scrolls handwritten by master scribes on parchment too holy to touch, and these scrolls are decorated and revered and protected and held in such high regard that when the cabinet they are kept in is open you have to stand in respect. And also you seal this covenant in blood by cutting off a part of your body. thats hardcore say less.
Don't forget that the only acceptable way to dispose of the scrolls is by burying them, as if they were a person, and that every year we dance with them as if they were a member of the community.
