What does the Korban Pesach signify?
The Maharal writes that the halachos of Korban Pesach all reflect a unity – bones have to be kept whole, – eaten in one group – in one place – at one time – roasted to keep it in one piece etc. All these are meant to reflect that ה’ אחד - that G-d is one, and His unity is everywhere.
However, this would seem to be at odds with another Maharal, that all Korbanos are meant to reflect the person bringing it. If the Korban Pesach is reflecting Hashem’s unity, how is it reflecting us, the people bringing it?
R’ Yehoshua Hartman explains that as a nation, we reflect the אחדות of Hashem. We have nothing but Hashem, and nothing else on what to fall back. This is not found anywhere else. If we compare to Israel to Egypt, if in Egypt it doesnt rain for years, it’s not a problem, the Nile sustains everything anyway. If in Israel it doesn’t rain for one year, there are serious problems, and people start worrying(and when people start worrying, they start praying). We do not have anywhere else to go, but to Hashem.
When the Jews said נעשה ונשמע – we will do and we will listen – what they were effectively saying is that they did not enter the equation. When Hashem asks something of us, that is all that matters, and this explains why so many Jews in history were willing to be מוסר נפש – self-sacrifice – rather than commit a sin and cause a desecration of Hashem’s name. The rationale behind this is that Hashem doesn’t want you to to do something, and if you do it, it’s the same as dying, as it is antithetical to what G-d wants.
So we can see that really, there is no contradiction between the two Maharals. We say in Aleinu that אין עוד – which means there is no other reality other than what G-d wants. No-one symbolises this more than the Jews.