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'''Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik''' (August 28, 1899 – February 14, 2006) was an author and ''[[Mashpia]]'' in the [[Chabad-Lubavitch|Chabad]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] community in [[Brooklyn]], New York.

== Early life ==

Yehuda Chitrik was born in 1899 in {{ill|Krasnaluk|ru|Краснолуки}}, a small Jewish [[shtetl]] in [[Belarus]], to a prominent Lubavitch family that traces its roots to the foremost Chassidim of the [[Alter Rebbe]]. At the age of 14, he began studying in [[Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim]] in the village of [[Lyubavichi]], where he met the fifth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi [[Sholom Dovber Schneersohn]]. For the next 12 years, he traveled to many different communities together with the Yeshiva, for the difficulties caused by World War I, the [[Bolshevik revolution]], and the economic pressures to which the Jews were subjected compelled the Yeshiva to move frequently.

In 1926, Chitrik married Kayla Tomarkin, the daughter of Rabbi Aharon Tomarkin, a Rabbi in [[Kharkiv]], [[Ukraine]], and began to serve as a ''[[Shochet]]'' until the Russian government forcefully shut down the ritual slaughterhouses. During this period he also met Rabbi [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]], who later became the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe.

== Post-Holocaust ==

In the turmoil that followed World War II and [[the Holocaust]], Rabbi Chitrik and his family moved to [[Belgium]] with the intention of continuing to the United States. But the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi [[Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn]] recognized his skills and asked him to remain in Belgium to support the community and spread [[Yiddishkeit]] and Chassidic warmth among the many refugees who had settled in that country.

In 1949, he emigrated to [[Montreal]], [[Canada]], where he was appointed ''Mashpia'' in the branch of the [[Tomchei Temimim|Lubavitcher Yeshiva]] established there. After the passing of his wife in 1983, he moved to Brooklyn.

Rabbi Chitrik was the eldest living Chabad Chassid for many years. He died 17 [[Shevat]] 5766. He has four children and eighteen grandchildren, and is survived by over 300 descendants in total.{{Citation needed|date=March 2007}}

Many of his descendants serve as spiritual leaders and rabbis across the globe. Amongst them is his son-in-law [http://membres.lycos.fr/jewishantwerp/ShomreiHadass.htm Rabbi David Moshe Lieberman], who serves as the chief rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium. His great grandsons, Rabbi [[Mendy Chitrik]] of Istanbul, Turkey serves as the Chairman of the [[Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States]]. Other descendants serve in China, Turkey, [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?AID=304447 Germany], Australia, [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?AID=118470 Israel], [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?AID=118610 Canada], [http://www.jabad.org.uy/ Uruguay], Brazil, [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?aid=117995 Ukraine], [http://www.eayc.org/rav.shtml England] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704194004/http://www.eayc.org/rav.shtml |date=2007-07-04 }} and cities across the United States: [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?aid=118560 Bedford, NY]; [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?aid=117957 Philadelphia, PA], [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?aid=398217 New York City, NY]; [http://www.chabad.org/centers/default.asp?AID=117984 Munster, IN]; Oak Park, MI.

== Writings ==
* ''Reshimot Devorim'', four volumes.
* From My Father's Shabbos Table, A Treasury of Chabad Chassidic Stories

== External links ==
* [http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?scope=6198&kid=10216 A collection of stories by Yehudah Chitrik] on [[Chabad.org]]
* [http://hershco.com/zen/ Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060306174221/http://hershco.com/zen/ |date=2006-03-06 }}
* [http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12083 Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106; Chasidic Storyteller] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313050716/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12083 |date=2007-03-13 }} The Jewish Week
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/nyregion/16CHITRIK.html New York Times eulogy]

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