Sicha Level 3 - Lech Lecha

Alef: Avraham got the reward of the 10 generations before him to show the erech apayim of Hashm.
Whos reward did avraham get? They were BAD, whys he being rewarding for them?
Ten generations till noach and they were killed in mei hamabul. But noach didn’t get their reward.
Meforshim answer that every person has their own chelek in gan eded before he comes to this world. If he gets a chelek in gehennim, then when someone who’s worthy comes along gets his spot.
But then why didn’t Noach get the first ten generations schar? Noach was a tzaddik in his generation, so he should have gotten everyone else’s schar.
Beis: Some meforshim say that noach didn’t do ‘kiruv’ and avraham went out to the other yidden, so that’s why he got all their reward.
So if noach didn’t get the reward then were did those cheleks in gan eden go?
You can’t say that no one got it, because it says that adam & chava were put in gan eded “l’avda u’lshamra’. Then chet etz hadaas happened, they were thrown out, and gan eden became the schar. Gan eden is a place where a person gets his ultimate place. So you can’t say that no one got the place.
We have to say that from the beginning those generations didn’t have any schar to start with.

What is the chiddush that the mishna’s trying to tell us that Hashem is erech apayim? We know this already – Hashem has his compassion & he doesn’t pour out his wrath we know that it refers to tzaddikim & reshaim. But KAMAH erech apayim – but the question is how long? He is erech apayim for even ten generations!
Q: What do we meen EVEN ten generations?
Q: What’s special about TEN?

Daled:
First we have to explain another concept – the order of the mishnayos is exact. What’s the connection between the 10 generations from adam to noach to the previous mishna that 10 maamoros the world was created? It’s not that it’s in chronological order b/c then it says about the things created on erev shabbos
Why 10 utterances – he could have done 1? To punish the reshaim that destroy the world, and to reward the tzaddikim who are mikayem the world
Now apply it to the next mishna.
From adam to noach – reshaim
noach came and was mikayem the world – make a kiyum to all those 10 generations before him –

Hey:
What's the difference between the 2 sets of 10 that one gets destroyed & 1 avraham gets their reward?
When they came & conquered a town some things had to be left & couldn’t be touched & some could be taken back with them.
Apply this to our war with bad in the world. There’s 2 types of bad. Certain things that can only be elevated by staying way from them – and actually BREAKING them, and certain things can be elevated.
The concept of the para aduma was of something totally evil – to be mechaper on someone that sinned. You consume it completely – not like you eat some if it. It’s takana is completely destroying it. Then you’re left with the ashes – the koach hamisava – basically the essence – and you can take that and use it to purify something.

Vov: Certain things can be transformed & elevated by using them for good. The first 10 generations couldn’t be elevated & had to be destroyed. But from Noach to Avraham the source was klipas noga. Avraham realized that there was a spark of goodness in them, and he came & changed the world and got all their schar.

Zayin: 10 is shleimus – that’s why a minyan is 10. Everything in kedusha is mirrored in the opposite of kedusha. There are 10 sefiros dklipa – the ultimate of klipa. That’s why Hashem waits 10 generations b/c it represents 10 bechinos – gives us the opportunity to walk away before it’s COMPLETE bad.

A person is an olam katan. In the world there were 10 generations then 10 generations. A person could be up to 10 days of not good involvement
“v’hisbarech blvavo laimor shalom yehiyeh li ki brshirirus libi elech”
Don’t say well I did it till now and nothing happened. Hashem is waiting for your teshuva - you never know when the “mei hamabul” will hit. But instead of just getting rid of the bad you did, you have to make up for all the good you missed doing.
“Get up and change the world”. There will never be a hey cheshvan tof shin samach tes again. You have to busy yourself with the lessen of the 2nd 10 generations, how can you retroactively elevate those 10 days that you were sunk into evil?