the line is "I am the Lord your God; worship no other gods but me"
nothing in there about "there is no other god but me" and in fact the prohibition assumes the existence of other gods that should not be worshipped
read William Robertson Smith. early judaism is attested by archaeological and epigraphic evidence to have been little more than a (human)-sacrificial cult more or less devoid of anything recognizable as ethics
similarly, your interpretation of that line in the passover story, like the post-Maimonides retconning of Psalms, glosses over how basically all the way until Maimonides the jewish 'God' was understood as someone who walked, talked, breathed, etc. in fact the jewish prohibition on iconographic representations of God didn't emerge until *after* the Muslim prohibition and the iconoclastic controversy in Christianity
ask any scholar of ancient judaism. yes you have various (brutal) copes that have been "accreted" by rabbis but the fact of the matter is that until 1000 AD or so jews regarded God as someone with arms and legs and so on. the chair in the Temple was where God sat. etc.
just so, judaism has no robust conception of an afterlife. contemporary jewish "accretions" with respect to rebirth or whatever are retcons, shameless syncretism, or both
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