Commentary for Berakhot 62:13
מאי אם ראה תראה דברה תורה כלשון בני אדם:
But how is "If Thou wilt indeed look" to be explained? The Torah speaks according to the language of the sons of man.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The plan of Hannah was deduced from the use of the infinitive with the finite verb, "If looking Thou wilt look." If the deduction is not drawn, how is the double use of the verb to be accounted for?
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
It is a common idiom, and no inference should be drawn therefrom.
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