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What the heck is Wi-Fi 6E? Stan Horaczek December 9, Popular-Science. Written on Balliol College, Oxford, letterhead stationery, the letter informed me that I was a force for superior culture in America, one of the few contemporary intellectuals worthy of respect, and through my writing the all but single-handed savior of Commentary magazine.
The author of the letter, he went on to report, was 25, had gone to Columbia, thence on a fellowship to Oxford, and would be spending the next few years as a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He ended by wondering if, were he to shore up one day in Chicago, we might meet for lunch.
Still, as one grows older, and I was then 40, one is pleased to have the praise of the young. I wrote to Leon Wieseltier, thanking him for his generous words and telling him that, yes, sure, should he ever find himself in Chicago, he was to let me know, so that we might meet.
Six or so months later, I received another letter from Wieseltier informing me that he planned to be in Chicago in six days and wondered if we might have that lunch. The letterhead was now that of the Harvard Society of Fellows. I wrote back to say yes, of course, and gave him the address of a Chinese restaurant where I thought we might meet.
When he entered the restaurant, he turned out to be tall, slender, with close-cropped dark hair. Conversation flowed easily enough. He told me that, like me, he wished to write for the intellectual magazines. He filled me in on his own background. His parents were immigrants, survivors of the Holocaust. His early education was at the Flatbush Yeshiva, where Talmud study had made all subsequent classroom learning seem a pushover.
We told each other Jewish jokes. Toward the close of the meal, he took out a scrap of paper and read out an address on Sheridan Road in Chicago and asked how far it was from the hotel in the Loop where he was staying.
Just then I wondered how many letters of the kind he had written to me, with appropriate variations, he had written to others. I also thought, this kid is doing intellectual tourism, and I am merely Siena. Three or so months later, he sent me his essay, which was passable but no great shakes. Still, wanting to encourage the young, I agreed to publish it, which, with a bit of editing, I did.
These reviews were of books on serious subjects—I remember a Gershom Scholem book at the center of one—and were not especially notable, not for distinction of style or for penetrating ideas, but good imitations of the kind of reviews that appeared in both places. His essay on Oxford that I published attracted no comment but for a letter from a reader pointing out that its author had made a factual mistake.
I wrote to tell him, Leon, all that was required was his acknowledging his error and apologizing for it. This was the second time in my brief acquaintance with him that I sensed Leon Wieseltier was a young man worth watching. And so I did, and continued to do. I never saw him again, but I found myself following his career with fascination and much amusement. Quite a career, close to fabled you might say, it turned out to be.
He had been generous to me, running some of my early writing in his magazine Dissent and going out of his way to get me, a man with no advanced degrees, a job teaching in the English department in nearby to me Northwestern University. He sat behind his desk, upon which sat an ample manuscript. He told me it was for his book to be called World of Our Fathers and that its publisher thought it had a chance for a large sale.
However, in this passage, Zacchaeus surprises Jesus and the people of the town with his attitude. Zacchaeus puts himself in an uncomfortable position in order to fulfill his desire to meet Jesus. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. For his part, Jesus initiated an encounter with Zacchaeus at that time, asking him to come down from the tree and take him to his home.
This unexpected act by Jesus is followed by another unexpected act by Zacchaeus. We do not know if what he felt was regret, but he did show a desire to repair the damage he had caused to those he had cheated or those to whose impoverishment he had contributed. Jesus never pressured or demanded of Zacchaeus that he make this decision. It could be precisely that gesture of generosity and compassion on the part of Jesus that motivated Zacchaeus to make the decision to return what he had usurped.
With this action, Jesus teaches us that we all have the power to transform a situation with an act of love when it is least expected. Although it may not seem so, we have much to offer, even to those who have hurt us. Jesus invites us to use our creativity. At this point in the story from the Gospel of Luke, it is important not to ignore the people who gossiped and became angry because Jesus went to stay with Zacchaeus.
Jesus was also sending them this message: those who are willing to follow me must be willing to forgo their desire for revenge and to forgo repaying evil with evil. This is a message that, even to this day, continues to challenge those of us who follow him, and one which has perhaps not been fully understood in the Christian world yet.
In this short but powerful story, Jesus offers us some ideas to help us reflect and use our creativity when we want to see justice done. With each of his actions, Jesus shows us again that the way is not an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
His idea of justice confronts us, makes us question ourselves, and surprises us as much as it surprised that crowd when Jesus asked Zacchaeus to come down from the tree. He is telling us that to act justly is to take actions that encourage the restoration of relationships and of people.
We are to win others over in order to have them work justly for the repair of damages and so that the offenses are not repeated.
It is a process that requires a lot of creativity and love toward those who have wronged us. As in this encounter, it is recognition of the dignity of the other that allows restorative justice to become a reality.
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