Weiler (Veiler) Mosus (Moisey) Cyrus (23 March 1907, Riga – 4 December 2000, Jerusalem) – rabbi.

Mosus Cyrus Veiler was born into a family with a strong rabbinical lineage; his father, Zalman Dov Ber Veiler, was a prominent member of the Jewish community. His paternal great-grandfather grew up in the household of Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of intellectual Hasidism, and served as the editor of his philosophical work Tanya. Moisey Cyrus Veiler received his initial Jewish and general education in Riga, continuing at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv, the first Jewish high school in the country. In 1926, he emigrated to the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware and receiving rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1933. That same year, he was sent to Johannesburg, South Africa, to establish a Reform congregation. He founded Temple Israel in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, and played a pivotal role in expanding the Progressive Judaism movement in South Africa, establishing numerous congregations across the country.

In 1942, Moses Cyrus Veiler married Una Gelman from Southern Rhodesia. They had six children: Daniel, Adam, Gideon, Aronoah, Joseph, and Benjamin. Tragically, sons Adam and Gideon were killed in the 1970 War of Attrition and the 1973 Yom Kippur War, respectively.

In 1958, Veiler and his family moved to Israel, where he continued his leadership in the Progressive Movement and was active in the Jewish National Fund. He served as a senior lecturer in Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem and held positions such as vice president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism and representative of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis to the Central Conference of American Rabbis. In 1980, he was awarded the Roger E. Joseph Prize for his pioneering efforts in promoting Liberal Judaism and opposing racial discrimination. He was also honoured as an honorary citizen of Jerusalem.

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