# (60) "Happy Wife, Happy Life"? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036/60-happy-wife-happy-life Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036/60-happy-wife-happy-life.md Podcast: [Intimate Judaism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036) Published: 2025-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://intimatejudaism.libsyn.com/60-happy-wife-happy-life-and-other-myths-i-learnedinyeshiva Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/intimatejudaism/IJ_60_edits_plus_music_final2.mp3?dest-id=758152 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/intimate-judaism-637036/episodes/60-happy-wife-happy-life Duration seconds: 2823 ## Resource Many contemporary how-to guides to Jewish marriage in the Orthodox world encourage husbands to shoulder full responsibility for their wives' happiness at the expense of their own. In the yeshiva world this is known as "being mevater." Though teaching young men to be unconditionally kind and respectful to their wives sounds progressive, Rabbi Scott Kahn and Talli Rosenbaum discuss the potential problems with this approach. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/intimate-judaism-637036/episodes/60-happy-wife-happy-life/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/intimate-judaism-637036/60-happy-wife-happy-life.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.