For most of the Exodus narrative, the Jews appear passive. It is God and Moshe who fight their battles. However, there comes a moment where the Jewish people must act to achieve their liberation. This shiur examines the midrashic understanding of the slaughtering of the Korban Pesach in light of the thought of the great German philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel along with contemporary thinker Slavoj Zizek to examine how the Jews act radically to gain their freedom.