@msh210 It's actually as simple as clicking on a tag in the related tags sidebar.

@MonicaCellio My only Famous Question.

@msh210 Interesting. I'd say that's a surprising most-viewed question

Considering the number of Jews who haven't even heard of shemita

@Daniel I suspect gentile involvement, somehow.

@IsaacMoses I mean I heard a bunch of weird stuff this past year

something about a blood moon in shemita

on sukkos

or something like that

and therefore salvation is at hand

jta.org/2014/09/30/life-religion/features/…

Just occurred to me that להבדיל literally means "to separate" but we use it to mean "as if [these are similar]"

@Moshe When one says להבדיל his intention is to show that even though he is drawing a comparison between two ideas, he does not consider them similar in general

I know. But the hand movements I've seen accompanying use of the word imply otherwise.

@Moshe Interesting. What hand movements have you seen?

(In my experience, people intend it the way I said)

@Scimonster I apparently have six famous questions. The most-viewed surprised me. The second-most-viewed got some "duh" feedback at the time as I recall, but stood nonetheless. The third was later closed (though I thought it a good question). Odd mix: 2 Pets, 1 Travel, 2 C.SE, 1 Seasoned Advice.

And I expected how do I give a cat a pill to get views, but it's not even Notable yet.

@Scimonster keyword ptij for later searches

@msh210 kpfls

@IsaacMoses k

@MonicaCellio Is there a common page where you can see all your famous questions, or is it only by site?

Among the names with highest percentage in the Northeast (among births in the USA since 1910) are a bunch of Jewish names. The top thirty, in order, are Normand, Yitzchok, Vincenza, Malka, Mordechai, Shimon, Shlomo, Chaim, Yisroel, Nechama, Devorah, Rivka, Pasquale, Gaetano, Filomena, Shmuel, Yehuda, Domenick, Yaakov, Santo, Carmine, Regis, Moshe, Avraham, Philomena, Chaya, Concetta, Menachem, Chana, Yetta. (Northeast is defined here as DC, MD, DE, NJ, CT, RI, MA, PA, NY, VT, NH, & ME.)

@msh210 Normand?

For Yetta, the 30th, 90.6% of its U.S. births (well, namings) were in the Northeast,

@IsaacMoses Apparently so. Dunno.

I don't find this answer convincing, but I think @MonicaCellio would find it of avocational interest.

(I think the query I'm looking at counts only names that were given at least 2000 times since 1910. But I'm not sure.)

@msh210 I'm feeling doubtful. No John? No Michael? No normal-American-looking names at all?

@IsaacMoses Why would you think those are given in the Northeast and not elsewhere?

This is names whose (# of times given in the Northeast)/(# of times given in the U.S.) is highest among all names (given 2000 times in the U.S. [I think]).

@msh210 Ah. That's a horse of a different color. And highly sensitive to the threshold. 2000 times in 100+ years is not very many times.

But yeah, even today, NYC has a lot of America's Jews, and that was probably more so as you go back through the decades.

@IsaacMoses Yep. And I imagine the same is true for Italians (at least historically, dunno about now).

... whence most of the non-Jewish names on that list.

@msh210 Yup

@msh210 I'm not aware of a common page (other than that one could write a SEDE query). I looked at my network profile and looked at sites where I had gold badges I couldn't immediately account for, and looked for the badge there.

@IsaacMoses thanks; I'll check out the video later when I can make noise. :-) (Actually, I have the sheet music for his Adon Olam in a book at home, too.)

@MonicaCellio You'd probably be well-equipped, then, to tell if it bears some technical resemblance to t he shul standard referred to in the question. My untrained ears don't pick up a resemblance.

@DoubleAA You, too!

@IsaacMoses Nor mine.

@DoubleAA You, too.

Here's the Adon Olam melody that @msh210's question is about:

And here's the first phrase of the Salamone Rossi setting (it goes on for a few pages and it does vary, because choral arrangements do that; I can do more with it after Shabbat but not now):

The former isn't directly in any line of the latter that I can see. Reading four-part open score in my head is a little beyond my musical abilities; it's possible that these lines combine to produce something similar to the melody you're thinking of.

(Apologies for the poor phone-photo there.)