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 [ru], 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.
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.