This article explores how the practice of Jewish rabbinic law within the combat ranks of the Israel Defense Forces can be used as an ethnographic medium through which anthropologists may better contextualize the social and political tensions that characterize Jewish religious nationalism in Israel. We argue that national religious combat soldiers rarely turn to rabbinic legal tracts, or to the overlapping levels of military and civilian rabbinic leadership in their immediate efforts to resolve the everyday ritual dilemmas of their service. Rather, these dilemmas are primarily addressed and (always imperfectly) resolved on the small-scale intra-unit level. Through this ethnographic window into the religious and ritual aspects of military life, this article ultimately argues that the experience of political piety in Israel (and perhaps the wider Middle East) hinges not so much upon the power play between opposing religious and secular institutions but rather in the daily ambivalences and ambiguities experienced by individual adherents as they go about their daily lives.

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士兵与学者：以色列国防军民族宗教战斗人员的仪式困境

本文探讨了以色列国防军战斗队伍中犹太拉比法律的实践如何被用作民族志媒介，人类学家可以通过这种媒介更好地将以色列犹太宗教民族主义特征的社会和政治紧张局势置于语境中。我们认为，民族宗教战斗士兵很少求助于拉比法律小册子，或在他们立即努力解决其服役中的日常仪式困境时，求助于军事和文职拉比领导层的重叠水平。相反，这些困境主要是在小规模的单位内部层面上解决和（总是不完美地）解决的。通过这个民族志窗口，了解军事生活的宗教和仪式方面，