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)
Here begins the history of suffering for the sake of consciousness.
(p30; ibid)
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.
For the sake of My name I defer My anger, and My praise is that I restrain My wrath for you, not to cut you off.
Behold I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen for you the crucible of poverty.
For My sake, for My sake I will do, for how shall it be profaned? And My honor I will not give to another.
(Isaiah 48:9-11)
Israel's fate is intimately bound up and identical with God's fate. For God becomes conscious of himself through the individuated human, the incarnation of the Self in a person that has unified the separated complexas in their ego-consciousness, and then sacrificed or surrendered the center of consciousness from the ego to the unified "Self" which then absorbs the ego complex.
Hubris is the leading cause of falling back into the unconscious; Egypt; the Great Mother, or the Flood. The condition of staying conscious is vouchsafed only through the willing acceptance of servitude to God.
The concept of the servant of God is a synonym for The Chosen One. (Isaiah 42:1 65:9)
Each individual, if one assents to being chosen, is the people, just as each also, in that late Jewish tradition, was led out of Egypt.
(p31; Psyche in Scripture - Rivkah Scharf Kluger)
Rashi ... understands hamme'at (the fewest, smallest [of Israel being among the nations]) not quantitatively but qualitatively. The suitability of Mount Sinai as the mountain of revelation is based by later tradition on its having found favor with God because it is the lowest mountain. Similarly the thorn bush is God's place of revelation because it is the least of all trees.
(ibid)
The contrite (or meek) shall inherit the earth means that only a person, or people that do not fall into pride or an inflated ego in their chosenness, shall be the people that remain conscious and not fall back into world of Tohu wa-bohu (the unformed void).