Chosen People

Jews as a chosen people corresponds to them being the most stubborn (stiff necked):

The condition of the electron is that the people hold to the commandment of Yahweh and to walk in his ways, thus dedicating themselves to God and sanctifying life, that is, living by a law other than only the law of nature, living in moral conflict, which is the presupposition of becoming conscious. p21; Psyche in Scripture - Rivkah Scharf Kluger

The more moral conflict there is, the more consciousness is needed to attend to the conflict, and the more conscious the person, and people become. The commandments are then psychological 'interrupts' to, on the one hand bring up God to mind, and on the other hand, because they are "unnatural" (not dependent on natural logic) brings one out of participation mystique of the collective. However this is done on a collective level. It is the ingenious yoking together of Individuality - the bringing of self-consciousness - and at the same time done on the level of a tribal collective; Individuation in a collective.