Idle shell restarts when loading en_core_web_sm on Macbook Pro (M4 Pro)

[gio3b2]

I just got a MB Pro (M4Pro) and migrated from MB Air (2018). I have installed spacy 3.9.6 with en_core_web_sm (3.8.0). On the new MB, I had to downgrade Numpy to 1.21.0. In the Python IDLE, I can import spacy as:
import spacy
However, the shell restarts once I run the command:
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
Is there anything I can do?