The tension between personal religious experience and institutionalized doctrine has shaped Jewish understanding of divine revelation for millennia. Through a two-dimensional framework examining both experiential and dogmatic aspects, revelation emerges as a complex phenomenon that challenges modern religious thought. While Maimonides' Thirteen Principles of Faith and earlier Rabbinic sources distinguish between prophetic experience and its dogmatic formulation, analysis of biblical and rabbinic texts reveals that Torah's complete revelation and binding authority was not inherent in biblical text, but rather established by first-century rabbis formulating Rabbinic Judaism. The entire halakhic structure depends upon this socio-dogmatic dimension of revelation, as rabbinic interpretation and institutionalization of divine communication replaced the Temple cult with a system of mitzvot and rabbinic authority. Three potential approaches emerge for resolving the modern dilemma of revelation: rejecting the Rabbinic socio-dogmatic framework entirely, fully accepting traditional halakhic authority, or adopting a middle position that acknowledges limited halakhic authority while incorporating modern democratic principles. This analysis illuminates how religious experience becomes institutionalized and the profound challenges this transformation presents for contemporary Jewish religious thought.