The Chosen people

It is said that we are the chosen people. I have often wondered what that meant. We are certainly not chosen  because we are the smartest people. We definitely are not, although this idea has created  jealousy, yet it is totally unsubstantiated and has given us great grief. We are certainly not chosen because we are privileged people, because that too is not true. We are certainly not chosen because we are in any way better than other people, because we decidedly are not. I have come to the conclusion that we are chosen for only one thing and that is to follow our religion as much as we possibly can, not because it is the one true religion, but because that is what we were ordered to do. We were chosen to follow 613 commandments as much as we possibly can, and the summary of these are: "Do not do unto others, what you would not have them do unto you" and "be as good and gentle a person as you can possibly be". We were chosen to do just that and by it to set an example to the world for goodness and kindness and fairness and ethics, in other words to follow and share the"Ten Commandments".