in addition to his work as the chabad shliach to los angeles, raichik also continued his practice of traveling around the united states for a number of months each year to spread judaism and pave the way for future "shluchim" to that particular place. another one of his functions as a traveling emissary of the lubavitcher rebbe was to collect money (known as "maimed", ), which were personal funds for the rebbe's private usage. these funds are a non-specified amount of money traditionally given each year by chassidim.