At his nephew’s entrance the rabbi glanced over his shoulder.
“Ah, Elias,” he asked, in a tone which, though amiable8, denoted very little interest, “where do you come from?”
“The Academy of Design. I’ve been at the exhibition.”
“So? Have you any pictures there?”
“Only one. ‘The Song of Deborah.’”
“Ah! Is it well hung?”
“Oh, yes—on the line.”
“That’s good. Some day I must drop in and see it.”
On both sides the dialogue had been perfunctory. Now there befell a silence. The rabbi returned to his reading. Elias sank upon a chair, thrust his hands deep into his trowsers pockets, and fixed9 his eyes upon the carpet. For a while the ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece was the only sound.
All at once Elias said: “Oh, yes—I forgot—I’ve been at Delmonico’s, too.”
“Ah,” rejoined the rabbi, “eating trepha food.”
“I ate neither pork nor shellfish,” Elias submitted. “I ate a bit of sweet-bread. Of course it hadn’t been killed kosher. But is that such a great sin? Some of our most pious10 Jews go to Delmonico’s. To-night, indeed, I saw Judge Nathan there, with his wife and daughters; and he’s president of his congregation.”
“Small sins beget11 larger ones. It’s better not to commit even peccadillos,” said the rabbi. “And eating trepha food isn’t merely a peccadillo12. However, you’re of full age. It’s not my place to call you to account.”
“Speaking of sins, Uncle Felix,” Elias presently went on, “tell me, what is the worst sin that a Jew could commit?”
The rabbi’s eyes had strayed back to his manuscript. Lifting them, “How?” he queried14.
Elias repeated his question.
“Why,” said the rabbi, “there are the ten commandments, which you know as well as I do. They’re of equal force. Theft, adultery, murder—one is as bad as another.”
“That isn’t exactly what I meant. I meant the worst sin which a Jew, as a Jew, could commit—the worst infraction15 of the Thorah as it applies peculiarly to Israel. The ten commandments embody17 the common law of morality, which is as binding18 upon Christians20 as it is upon Jews.”
“Oh,” said the rabbi, “that’s another question.”
“Would it be, for example, the desecration21 of Yom Kippur?”
“The desecration of Yom Kippur would be a deadly sin; so would the desecration of the Sabbath; so would disobedience to parental22 authority. But the most deadly of all, in my opinion, would be a forbidden marriage.”
“That is, marriage with a Christian19?”
“Yes—with a Gentile, a Goy—with any one not of our own race.”
“That, you think, is the one sin which would be most unpardonable in the sight of the Lord? For which He would inflict23 the severest punishment?”
“Yes, I think so. And it’s rather odd that we should speak of this just now, for at the moment when you came in I was reading a sermon on the very subject—a sermon written by your own greatgrandfather, the Reverend Abraham Bacharach, of New Orleans, the first of your family who came to America. I was reading a sermon that he preached at the excommunication of a young man of his congregation, who had married a Frenchwoman, a Catholic. Here it is.”
The rabbi pointed24 to the manuscript that lay upon his table.
“Indeed?” questioned Elias. “What does he say?”
“Oh, he agrees with me, that it is absolutely the most deadly of sins. He denounces it with a good deal of energy. There’s one paragraph here somewhere that struck me as especially fine. Would you like to hear it?”
“Yes, I shouldn’t mind,” Elias assented25.
The rabbi picked up the manuscript and began to run over the pages, searching for the place.
“Ah, I’ve got it,” he said at last. “It comes just after a statement of the circumstances, as a sort of summing up. It’s in German. Shall I read the original or translate?”
“Translate, if you will.”
The rabbi cleared his throat, brought the manuscript close to his eyes, knitted his brows and proceeded thus:
“Well, it runs this way: ‘He has defied the law of the Lord our God. Let him tremble and be afraid. He has dishonored the memory of his ancestors; he has besmirched26 the name of his family; he has broken the tie that bound him to his kinsfolk; he has sent the father that begot27 him, and the mother that bore and suckled him, weeping on the way to their graves. Oh, let him cast down his face and be ashamed. To his brothers and sisters, to those who were his friends and loved him, to the rabbi, the chazzan, the parnass, and the people of this congregation, and to all faithful Jews from one end of the earth to the other, he is as one who has died a disgraceful death. The anger of the Most High shall single him out. His cup shall be filled to the brim with gall28 and wormwood. The light of the sun shall be extinguished for him. A curse shall rest upon him and upon all that concerns him. His wife shall become as a sore in his flesh. With a scolding tongue she shall be-shrew him. As a wanton, she shall shame him.
“His worldly affairs shall not prosper29. Misfortune and calamity30 shall follow wherever he goes. Whatsoever31 he puts his hand to, that shall fail. An old man, homeless and friendless, he shall beg his bread from door to door. His intelligence shall decay. He shall be pointed out and jeered32 at, as a fool that drivels and chatters33. His health shall break. His bones shall rot in his body. His eyes shall become running ulcers34 in their sockets35. His blood shall dry up, a fiery36 poison in his veins37. And his seed also shall be afflicted38. From generation to generation, a blight39 shall pursue those that bear his name. For the blood of Israel mixed with the blood of a strange people, is like a sweet wine mixed with aloes. His sons shall be weak of mind and body. His daughters shall be ugly to look upon. To him and to his the Lord our God will show no mercy, even unto the brink40 of the grave. They shall be as if touched with the leprosy, shunned41 and despised of all men. To the Goy they will continue to be Jews; but to the Jew they will have become Goym. The Lord our God is a jealous God. His love knoweth no bounds. His wrath42 is like a great fire that can not be put out. He showereth favors abundantly upon them that love Him and keep His commandments. The iniquity43 of the fathers He visits upon the children and the children’s children, even unto the third and fourth generations. Blessed be the name of the Lord!”
The rabbi had begun this reading in low and matter-of-fact accents; but as he proceeded, his voice had increased in volume and emphasis, and the last words rang forth44, loud and resonant45, as though they had been addressed to a multitude in the synagogue. The veins in his forehead stood out blue and swollen46 against the white skin, and behind the thick lenses of his spectacles you could see that his black eyes were flashing fire. He paused for a little, breathing deeply. By degrees the veins in his forehead grew small and smaller, becoming pale, flat lines, like veins in marble. Presently, laying aside the manuscript, “There, Elias,” he added, quietly, “that is what your great-grandfather thought about intermarriage, and I guess there has never been a Bacharach to think differently. I hope there never may be one, I’m sure. Why—why, what makes you so pale?”
“Am I pale? I didn’t know it. The denunciation is bitter—terrible. It gave me cold shivers.”
“Yes, terrible, so it is. But not exaggerated. It sounds pretty strong, but it couldn’t be called exaggerated. For really it’s only a simple statement of the truth, the facts. I’m going to quote it in my own discourse47 next Sabbath. It’s just like every thing else. Break a law, whether it be a law of nature, a law of the land, or the law of God, and you must expect to suffer the consequences, to be punished.”
“Yes, of course. And yet, somehow, it seems as though the punishment ought to be in proportion to the offense48. Do you seriously, literally49, believe that the Lord would punish such a sin with such frightful50, far-reaching penalties?”
“With worse, even. No mere13 human mind can conceive, much less describe, the fearful forms the Divine vengeance51 would take. All we can do is to picture to ourselves the worst, and then say: It will be as bad as that, or worse. That’s what your grandfather has tried to do here. The Lord has expressed in perfectly plain language His desire that the integrity of Israel should be preserved. That was the purpose for which this world was created and mankind called into existence. Now, to enter into matrimony with a Gentile is such a flagrant setting at naught52 of the Lord’s will—why, common-sense is enough to show the inevitable53 consequences.”
“But suppose a Jew should love a woman of another race—a Christian, for example; what would you have him do? Leave her? Never see her again? Give her up? If he loved her, no pain that the Lord could inflict would be worse than the pain of that.”
“Hold your tongue, Elias!” the rabbi cried sharply. “What you say is blasphemous54, is a denial of the Lord’s omnipotence55. May the Lord forgive you. No, no. His power to inflict pain, as well as to confer blessings56, is measureless. What would I have the Jew do? Why, of course, I would have him give her up, no matter how much the sacrifice might cost him. But the case you put is not likely to arise. Love for a Christian woman never could enter a Jewish heart. Such a sentiment as a Jew might perhaps feel for her would be an unholy passion. She might fascinate his senses, but of true love, she could inspire none at all.”
“And yet, suppose, for the sake of argument, suppose that she could—that she had—that the Jew really did love her with true love, what then?”
“Why, then, as I say, I would have him renounce57 her, and abstain58 afterward59 from any sort of communication with her. I would have him pray, also, that his heart might be cleansed60 and restored to health; for such love would be a spiritual disease.”
Elias made no answer. The rabbi turned his attention to his lamp, the flame of which was spluttering and palpitating, preparatory to going out.
“Pshaw,” he said, extinguishing it, “I must have forgotten to fill it.”
Then he struck a match, and lighted the gas.
“You have made me hungry and thirsty with so much talking,” he continued. “Now I’m going down stairs to forage61 for something to eat. Will you come along?”
“No, I guess I’ll go to bed,” said Elias. “Good-night.”
But he did not go to bed, nor even to his bed-room.
He went to his studio, and sat down in the dark at the window.
It was a wondrous62 night—the sky cloudless, the air as clear as crystal. The moon, waning63, was up, but out of sight in the south, hidden by the housetops. Its frosty light bathed the prospect64, like an ethereal form of dew, as far as eye could see. The branches of the trees were silvered by it. Their shadows were sharply etched upon the turf beneath. The yellow flames of the street lamps flared65 faint and sickly. The few human beings who now and then passed on the sidewalk opposite, had the appearance of mere black spots in motion. Only the largest of the stars dared to show themselves, and they trembled, and were pale, as if cowed by their luminous66 rival. In the north-west, the spires67 of St. George’s Church stood in massive profile against the deep, shimmering68 vault69 of sky. An impressive outlook, cold, serene70, passionless; of a sort to remind one of the magnitude and the inexorableness of the material universe, and of the infinitesimal smallness and insignificance71 of one’s self, and to fill one’s mind with solemn doubts and questions. But it had no such effect upon Elias Bacharach. Never had his own self loomed72 larger in his eyes, never had it more exclusively absorbed his faculties73, than at this moment, in the face of this moonlit view.
Elias had been bred in the straitest sect74 of his religion; a rare thing in this country in these days of radicalism75 and unbelief. From his earliest boyhood down, his training, his associations, his family life, nearly every influence that had borne upon him, had been of a nature to make him intensely, if not zealously76 or aggressively, a Jew—to imbue77 his mind thoroughly78 with the Jewish faith, and to color his character to its innermost fibers79 with strong Jewish feelings. Besides, the blood of generations of devout80 Jews coursed in his veins; it was tinctured through and through with Jewish prejudice and superstition81. He had never been sent to school, lest in some wise his Judaism might be weakened by contact with the Christians. His uncle, the rabbi, had taken sole charge of his education. Pride of race had been an integral part of the curriculum. “Never forget that you are a Jew, and remember that the world has no honor to bestow82 upon you equal to the honor that attaches to your birth. To be born in Israel is more illustrious than to be born a prince; the blood of Israel outranks the blood royal; for the Lord our God created the heavens and the earth, the birds and the beasts, the flowers, the trees, the air, the sunlight, for the especial enjoyment83 of His chosen and much-beloved people. But remember, too, that if the Lord has vouchsafed84 to you this great and peculiar16 privilege, so He will exact from you great and peculiar devotion. Though a Gentile—because the Lord pays no heed85 to him—may commit certain sinful acts with impunity86, for you—upon whom the eye of the Lord rests perpetually—for you to commit them, would entail87 immediate88 and awful punishment. Though a Christian, for example—because he is of infinite smallness in the sight of the Lord—may transact89 business on the Sabbath, if you—a Jew—were to do so, the Lord would surely visit you with some frightful calamity. You might be struck by lightning; you might be afflicted with an incurable90 disease.” This was the sort of doctrine91 that had been dinned92 into Elias Bacharach’s ears from the time when he had first begun the studies preparatory to becoming Bar-Mitzvah, and to assuming, as the saying is, the Yoke93 of the Thorah. Heredity predisposed him to accept it. The occasion had never arisen for him to doubt it, or even to consider it in the light of his own intelligence. He had taken it for granted, just as he had taken his geography and history for granted, just as many wiser people than he, the world over, take their theology for granted every day.
To a Jew such as this, nothing can be more intrinsically repugnant than the idea of marriage with a Christian—or, more accurately94, with a Goy, which term is applied95 equally to all human beings who are not of Jewish faith and lineage. The average Caucasian would pretty certainly hesitate at the idea of marriage with a Mongolian. How much more positive would his hesitation96 be, if race antipathy97 were, as it is in the case of the Jews, reenforced by the terrors of a supernatural religion. It is no figure of speech, but a literal statement of the fact, to say that an orthodox Jewish father would rather have his son die than marry outside of Israel. He would prefer a funeral to such a wedding. Indeed, such a wedding would be regarded as equivalent to a funeral. The name of the bridegroom would be published among the names of the dead in the Jewish newspapers. His parents, his brothers and sisters, his nearest relatives, would put on mourning for him; and henceforward, if they should pass him in the street, they would refuse to recognize him. In the synagogue he would be excommunicated and cursed. All pious Jews would be enjoined98 from holding any intercourse99 whatever with him; from speaking with him; from buying of him, or selling to him; from giving him food, drink, clothing or shelter; from succoring100 him in danger or in sickness; even from pronouncing his name. “Be he accursed, and be his name forever accursed among men.” Furthermore, all pious Jews would cherish the conviction that sooner or later the vengeance of the Lord would overtake and overwhelm him. They would predict the direst calamities101, the most fearful retribution. Superstition never pays attention to statistics, and is never shaken by them. No conceivable misfortune that can fasten upon a human being in this world, but they would promise it to him. Poverty, disease, disgrace; an adulterous wife; deformed102 children, unsound of mind and evil of heart; whatever the imagination can depict103 of horrible and disastrous104 would inevitably105 fall to his lot.
In this faith, among these traditions, Elias Bacharach had grown up. For hundreds, for thousands, of years, his ancestors on every side had nourished these superstitions106. *
* It would seem hardly necessary, yet it is no more than
fair to say that among the better-educated and more
intelligent Jews in America, orthodoxy of this stripe is not
common. Even among them, notwithstanding, it prevails to a
sufficient extent; and among the ignorant classes it is the
rule. It is a curious circumstance, however, that, in the
majority of cases, those very Jews who have cast quite loose
from their Judaism, and proclaim themselves “free-thinkers,”
“agnostics,” or what not, retain their prejudice against
intermarriage, and even their superstitions anent its
consequences.
And yet, an hour ago, when Elias had taken leave of Christine Redwood, his heart was palpitating with a myriad107 new and sweet emotions, for which, suddenly, at last, he realized that the right name was love—realized it, as has been said, with surprise and with consternation108, for he had been unaccountably blind to his own condition until to-night. And during his walk home he had pictured to himself the exceeding joy that would be his if she should ever come to love him in return. And even now, the light of her eyes still shone in his memory, the scent109 of her garments still clung in his nostrils110, the sound of her voice still vibrated in his ears, the touch of her hand was still warm upon his arm. Even now, as he looked out into the vast moonlit sky, and spoke111 her name softly to himself, a thrill swept electrically through his body. He loved her, he told himself; and if he could not win her love, if he could not have her for his wife, the world would become a desert to him, his life would be wasted, he would rather die, here, now, at once. Perhaps Christine, too, was at this hour looking out of her window. Perhaps her eyes, as well as his, were filling themselves with the glory of the night. In this fancy, highly improbable as it was, he found much comfort. It was good to think that he and she were enjoying something in common. The moonlight was like a palpable link connecting them, like a gossamer112 cord stretching between them and binding them together. Would that it might bear a message from him to her, and let her know of the love that was yearning113 in his bosom114. Again he spoke aloud her name, caressing115 it as it passed his lips. And again his heart thrilled, intoxicated116 with love and hope.
But all at once his superstition sprang upon him. All at once, like a flash of lightning in the darkness, the fear of the Divine wrath lit up his imagination. Every drop of blood in his body came to a standstill and grew cold. He could feel his flesh creep, his hair rise on end. For a third time he pronounced her name; but this time it escaped like a gasp117 of pain from between clenched118 teeth. Why had he ever seen her? Why had he not understood the peril119 that he was running, and avoided it? Henceforth, at any rate, he would never see her again. He would do as his uncle had said, give her up, tear her from his heart. No matter how hard it might be, he would do it, and so save her and himself from perdition. But the resolution had not taken shape in his mind before Christine’s face, pale and pleading, with pathetic, passionate120 eyes, came up visibly before him; and then he was conscious of nothing but of a great tenderness for her, an infinite need of her, a sharp pang121 of remorse122 that he should have been disloyal to her for an instant, a strong throbbing123 in his temples, a wondrous tremor124 through all his senses. Yet, even while this vision was still haunting his sight, the voice of the rabbi began to ring hideously125 in his ears, repeating the anathema126 that his own ancestor had written; and all the Jew in him shuddered127 at the sound.
He covered his head and prayed.
He remained in prayer until the dawn had begun to whiten the walls of his room.
Then he sat down at his window, and watched the red and gold burn in the eastern sky, and wondered at the strange calm that had come to him. His prayer had been answered, he believed. He had prayed that his heart might be purged128 of the unholy love that had stolen into it. Now he could think of Christine with complete indifference129. Not a trace was left of the agitation130 which that thought had aroused in him a little while ago.
“The Lord has heard my prayer. I am not in love with her any more,” he said.
He went through the rest of that week in the same indifferent condition—ate, drank, slept, painted, chatted with his uncle, kept the Sabbath, precisely131 as though Christine Redwood had never crossed the horizon of his world.
“I am not in love with her,” he assured himself. “She is a pretty and pleasant girl; but I am not in love with her, and never shall be.”
The Jew had got the better of the man.
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