We are thrilled to announce that Congregation Gesher L’Torah has engaged Rabbi Michael Bernstein to be our new rabbi beginning July 15th.

Thank you and a hearty Mazel Tov to all of the many congregants who made this successful search for a new rabbi possible. 

We look forward to the arrival of Rabbi and Tracie Bernstein and their children Ayelet, Yaron and Liana at the beginning of July. Rabbi Bernstein will officially start on July 15th.

In the meantime, if you would like to get in touch with Rabbi Bernstein for any reason, he welcomes you to email him at ravbernstn@gmail.com.

The excitement and growth at GLT continues and we look forward to all of you being a part of it!!

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Message from Rabbi Michael Bernstein

to Gesher L’Torah

Dear Gesher L'Torah Community,

I am overjoyed to be joining you to serve as the Rabbi of our wonderful, growing congregation.  Tracie and I are excited as we prepare to move our kids, Ayelet, Yaron and Liana to Alpharetta this summer.  I have met many of you since spending the High Holidays with Gesher this year, and hope to reconnect and get to know the community in the coming months as we grow together.

The Baal Shem Tov, the great spiritual innovator of the 18th century, taught that the reason that the Holy One decided to create the universe was out of a love to hear stories. At the heart of what makes a community tick are the stories, individual and shared, of its members. My family is concluding a sabbatical year in Israel in which we have worked, studied and lived in Jerusalem. But my own Gesher story began a little over 10 years ago when, as a rabbinical student, I served what was then called the North Fulton Jewish Center as the first High Holiday rabbi.

Each of us has a place from which we come, a journey on which we find ourselves and a dream for the future. Some of these stories are replete with joy, some involve challenges and even loss, and others have yet to be fully written. I am looking forward to getting to know these stories, to sharing with you my own and to being part of those that are yet to come.

L'shalom,

Rabbi Michael