This paper offers a Levinasian reading of two Talmudic narratives as a primary Jewish source for thinking about climate crisis, sustainability, and ethical inequality. Focusing on the paired stories of Abba Hilkia and his wife, and Rabbi Ḥanina ben Dosa and his wife, I read these texts not merely as miracle tales about rain, but as ethical dramas staged under conditions of drought and scarcity. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's account of responsibility and asymmetrical ethics, I argue that these narratives articulate differentiated—often gendered—responses to environmental precarity. In both cases, the wives' actions foreground embodied care, attentiveness to immediate need, and responsiveness to the vulnerability of others, while the male figures enact forms of ascetic withdrawal, piety, or spiritual authority. Rather than presenting a simple hierarchy, the aggadot destabilize conventional valuations of religious agency, redistributing ethical weight toward those whose labor and responsiveness remain socially marginal. Read through Levinas, these texts challenge anthropocentric and merit-based theologies of climate response, proposing instead an ethics grounded in responsibility to the Other under conditions of unequal exposure to risk and loss. The paper suggests that these stories can offer a distinctly Jewish contribution to contemporary debates on climate justice, gender, and inequality, rooted not in abstraction but in narrative, vulnerability, and everyday ethical action.