The novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer recalls an early visit to the circus, with a girl and against his parent’s wishes, and his youthful fascination with the miraculous.
Looking back on my life, I can remember always being exceedingly curious about the unusual, the mysterious, the miraculous. My father constantly spoke about saints and wonder rabbis and the miracles they worked through the power of the Kabbalah and holy names. God himself was a super miracle worker. He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. The men who served him, from the time of Moses to the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, were all men of magic.
It wasn’t only magicians that were unkosher for my father but all worldly institutions, all sciences, all arts. I once heard him say, in one of his sermons, that the wicked sit all day in the theatre, eat pork, and fool around with salacious females. Even the gardens and public parks were taboo to him. He was told that unbelieving boys and girls in short dresses and naked arms met in these places and fell in love. To my father, love was almost as forbidden as pig meat.
But the pleasure outweighed the sins. Shosha and I sat in the trolley car holding hands. We passed elegant streets where only non-Jews lived, and we saw fancy stores with mannequins dressed in splendid gowns and furs. We behaved like the lovers we read about in the Yiddish storybooks that we bought for a groschen apiece.
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