Looking for a book recommendation to refresh my memory on the history of the Jewish people and also learn the lessons of the Torah/talmud/etc.

Disclaimer: in this post I am going to use familiar words that I hope don’t offend if they are in fact secular words I am just kind of riffing.

Hebrew school grad here who dropped after my BM. I started reading one book recently – Here All Along which is about “rediscovering” Judaism as an adult for lack of a better word. The book has many excerpts of history that I recall but were not on top of mind since it has been 20 years since I learned. I really am fascinated by the little “proverbs” again for lack of a better word such as “god will provide the sheep” or “how dare you pray while my people are drowning” and “we were once strangers in Egypt etc”. I feel like those principles are what I am looking for and what I would like to pass on and live by. I am also fascinated by how the Jew after the destruction of the temple had the wherewithal to continue to remain Jewish and also of the rabbis to reinterpret parts of the Torah realizing that if it was going to continue it would need to modernize.

Is there any like basic reading level book that’s not insanely long that kind of walks you through all these key moments in Judaism and how they relate to the Torah and the lessons they provide?

Not a kids book of course but not 1,000 pages. Am I making sense?