The Ma’aseh Ephod and Perfeyt Duran’s Linguistic Theology

In this paper I explain the relation between the Introduction to the Maaseh Efod and the actual grammar and argue that Duran`s idea that true spirituality is a matter of memorizing and holding in one`s mind the Written Torah means that one must constantly be "speaking" or entertaining the Hebrew language, both the corpus produced by the grammar and the understanding afforded by knowing the grammar. Because Hebrew is God`s own language, this amounts to a form of imitateo dei. As part of this I explain the special powers of Hebrew and the meaning of `segulah` and Duran`s metaphysical speculative grammar.