Helping me figure out how to play old favorite Shalom Aleichem in F minor (four flats) the other day, my fiddle teacher said the best way to approach so many flats in one piece is to use a hand frame to feel where the notes should go on the fingerboard. Such tricks are necessary because fiddles don’t have frets like guitars do.
Use the Spock Hand Frame, he said, smiling and holding up his left hand in the old Star Trek “live long and prosper” gesture—you know, with the index and middle fingers close and the ring and pinkie fingers close with a V-shaped gap in between the middle and ring fingers.
The irony of this nice Christian boy’s unknowing choice of words is that Shalom Aleichem (peace unto you) is sung by observant Ashkenazi Jews on Sabbath eve. And Leonard Nimoy, the nice Jewish boy who played the pompous Vulcan Mr. Spock in the series, knowingly took the hand frame (though he didn’t call it that) from the hand sign of the Jewish Priestly Blessing, which originated in Israel (rather than on Vulcan) a few thousand years ago.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Hm… a conspiracy is brewing, I feel it in my bones 😉
The Jews…they’re everywhere, they’re everywhere. 😉