Today is the commemoration of the declaration of the Báb.  The Báb is many things to many people: to those few Bábis who remain today, he is a tragic messiah; to Soviet Marxist historiographers like M.S. Ivanov, he was a tragic revolutionary; to Baha’is, he was the brave trailblazer of the Promised One of all religions and a new cycle in human history; to me, he was a metaphysical jester, but more importantly, he was the being who brought me home.

I actually discovered the Baha’i Faith in 2004, during the weekend of Halloween, in the Holy Land herself.  At the time I was on vacation from my job in Neve Shalom, Israel’s first and only purpose-built Arab-Jewish cooperative village.  I was traveling through the north of Israel, visiting the Galilee region, and ultimately ended in Acca and Haifa.  What follows is a brief account of those personally momentous days.

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