Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon's "Soil of the Land of Israel" transforms the traditional Jewish dichotomy of Zion versus exile into a complex meditation on spiritual displacement through sophisticated ironic techniques. While Agnon builds upon mythic equations of Zion-life and Exile-death found throughout his works, he systematically undermines these conventional polarities through three primary ironic strategies. First, his irony of allusion deflects Talmudic and Midrashic sources from their original meanings. Second, author-versus-narrator irony creates dramatic distance between a self-deluding narrator and Agnon's authorial perspective. Third, symbolic irony inverts expected hierarchies of sacred and profane. Close textual examination reveals how the narrator's condescending attempt to act as spiritual savior to an exiled gravekeeper ultimately exposes his own deeper exile, even within the Land of Israel. Through these narrative techniques, Agnon's modern sensibility transforms traditional religious forms into vehicles for exploring contemporary spiritual disorientation. As an "ironic fabulist of decay," Agnon captures the tension between traditional Jewish values and modern secular consciousness, suggesting that exile may be the fundamental human condition.