I have absolutely no interest in reading the Talmud, never have. The few times I tried, to gain some perspective on what was said about it, I found it completely unreadable.
Ive only read parts of the Torah. Read half the New Testament. Found it boring.
I have a Jewish, but utterly secular father, who is a physicist and processor architect. He never bothered me with any Jewish lore, as his father, who became atheist in his youth, never bothered him.
Through Crowley I did become a student of the kabbalistic Tree of Life. Now that made sense to me. Dimensional explosion. This was the first mystical text that I read and appreciated;
Eventually I recorded some lectures.