Question

Hi Rabbi Dr. Michi. I have a question.
The cosmological argument assumes that everything has a cause, and that every complex thing has something more complex than it that caused it. And here the old question arises: what is the cause of God? One of the answers given, in order to stop this infinite regress, is that there must be something that itself has no cause and is the cause of everything. The main claim is that the principle of causality exists within a framework of time and space, and without that framework the principle of causality cannot exist. Therefore, there must be someone who created the framework of time and space; that cause is called God.
Something here doesn’t sit right with me. I can indeed agree with the assumption that everything has a cause, but I can’t accept the assumption that x causes y outside a physical framework. We can indeed see intuitively that the principle of causality is realized before our eyes—we "see it," after all. But we have no experience whatsoever with non-physical causes producing physical phenomena. Therefore I think the probability of such a thing happening is very low.
In addition, the claim that there must be a cause that itself has no cause, which brought about the principle of causality, is not something I can grasp. I can’t manage to understand it. Does this process itself have no cause? And if it has no cause, then how was it brought about? After all, when A causes B, we call that a cause. And if it wasn’t caused, then what is it exactly? On the other hand, if God does indeed have a cause, that automatically places Him within the world of physical phenomena, and then He is no longer exempt from the question of what His cause is.
Have a good week.