High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik (August 28, 1899 February 14, 2006) was an author and Mashpia in the Chabad Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York. Yehuda Chitrik was born in 1899 in Krasnaluk, a small Jewish shtetl in Russia, 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 Lubavitch, 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.