Question

Hello Rabbi,
I apologize in advance if I’m asking a question that has already been asked (I really did try hard to search first), and if I’m asking it in a somewhat stupid way. Unfortunately, it’s very hard for me to read, and I’m ignorant and unlearned, but on the other hand I can’t help taking an interest in the very fascinating topics discussed here.
If I understood correctly, the Rabbi argues regarding the question of the cause of the Creator Himself that one can make a certain “exception,” and perhaps also use the problem of infinite regress as itself a necessity (I’m probably not phrasing this correctly, but that’s roughly what I understood).
And I wanted to ask whether it would not be correct to say that since time itself also exists and needs a cause, then necessarily its cause has no cause, because that cause must necessarily exist at a stage before the existence of time, and consequently it makes no sense for there to be anything before it (because before and after exist only in an environment where there is time), and a cause has to come before the result?
 
Thank you very much in advance!
Benjamin