Editing Chaim Mordechai Isaac Hodakov (section)

==== Sefer HaShanah ====
Sefer HaShanah was published on the initiative of Rabbi Chodakov in 5699 (1939). The book collected articles for youth according to the weekly Torah portions, from the "HaAch" journal published by Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in the years 5671-5674 (1911-1914). The book was actually edited by Z.Z. Wasserman and A. Tachrav, and was distributed among Jewish students in Latvia.

Additional editions of the book were published in the years 5702 (1942) and 5715 (1955) by Rabbi Chodakov in the publication of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch which was under his management, and these editions were distributed mainly in the United States. In the introduction to the second edition of Sefer HaShanah, Rabbi Chodakov explained the importance of reading the articles collected from the "HaAch" newspaper: "HaAch is different from other newspapers for children, which even if their articles interest you, you will not want to return to them many times, because you will not find anything new in them, and your soul will tire of reading them. Not so are the articles of HaAch, which each time you read them, will please you as at first, and will awaken within you holy aspirations to rise to a higher spiritual level than the one you are already standing on." In the continuation of the introduction, he explains that he wanted to reprint all the articles of the 'HaAch' journal, but in practice collected articles only on the weekly Torah portions and they would serve not only as reading material for youth but would also be an aid to teachers who recognize their role, to guide their students in the way of Torah and therefore find it appropriate to have sacred conversations with the students from time to time that will influence their spiritual direction.