The millennia-old tension between literal and symbolic interpretations of Jewish thought presents a crucial challenge for Conservative Judaism's theological foundations. Through analysis of major Jewish thinkers including Maimonides, Crescas, and mystical traditions, a pattern emerges of scholars who maintained halakhically realistic practices while embracing symbolic interpretations of Torah and divinity. Drawing from diverse sources spanning Evelyn Underwood's mysticism studies to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in quantum physics, this theological response to Gordon Tucker's examination of metaphysical realism reveals how Judaism has historically navigated between absolute realism and pure symbolism. While pure metaphysical realism faces significant philosophical challenges evidenced from Spinoza through modern physics, complete relativism undermines authentic religious community and experience. Hillary Putnam's internal or pragmatic realism offers Conservative Judaism a viable middle path that preserves both transcendence and human interpretive frameworks while maintaining traditional halakhic practice and acknowledging the fundamental unknowability of divine essence.