Modern Jewish theology faces a core dilemma: how can religious commitment survive our growing awareness that sacred texts emerge from specific historical moments and human perspectives? Traditional attempts to bridge absolute divine truth with relative human understanding through metaphor or divine-human encounter models have only masked rather than resolved this tension. Through philosophical analysis and psychological examination, Wasserman reveals that the challenge is fundamentally psychological - a question of how modern believers can maintain authentic faith while fully conscious of their own meaning-making processes. As religious consciousness evolved from premodern times, when human creativity and divine authority existed in natural harmony, to our current era of stark separation between subjective and objective truth, this psychological burden has intensified. Drawing on Franz Rosenzweig's concept of learning "from the outside in," a postcritical approach emerges that embraces self-consciousness as a path to genuine religious engagement rather than an obstacle to overcome. This framework, built on principles of separation and reintegration, incorporates divine contraction (tzimtzum), human responsibility, and pluralistic revelation to suggest that mature religious commitment requires not abandoning critical awareness but integrating it - learning to "distinguish the dancer from the dance and yet dance." These insights advance contemporary understanding of religious epistemology, Jewish theology, and the psychology of belief in modernity.