#idk it's difficult to quantify this bc well. I don't speak for all Jews

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Part of this is just my fair share of dumb judginess based on my cultural background and I'm probably making a slew of uncharitable assumptions. Also I mostly know about Catholicism and not much else.

But I feel that people sort of misunderstand Judaism as a monotheistic religion. Like, we genuinely do not see Christianity and Islam as monotheistic, and we are not really worshipping the same God. God really does tend to be seen as a more abstract and primordial force in Judaism than other Abrahamic religions.

The most tangible God gets is a version of God that's a sort of all powerful alien being, who can directly intervene in our lives on occasion and may turn the tide on major events and cause inexplicable things to happen, and has a fundamentally different view on life than we do. The most common interpretation I've encountered is that God is the more abstract will of the universe, like a manifestation of fate. He makes decisions, these decisions are not always things we understand or agree with and all we can do is accept that what God makes happen is what's right and deal with it ourselves by extrapolating on His motives.

And we directly connect with God in these very sensory ways that connect us to nature and to ourselves. Smelling, tasting, singing, meditating, sacrificing animals. It's sort of at odds with the very literary nature of Judaism where one's experience of God, the moments you most believe in him, are very base and sensory, but you decide how to act based on the written word and God is just kind of the metric for good behavior to use as an argumentative tool.