exceptional

Recursions gave mishnaic rabbis pause;
such questions without answers just seemed wrong!
They sought a cosmos run by causal laws.
And so, they posit the first pair of tongs.
Created erev shabbos the first Week
to be discovered by a BronzeAge sage.
Full 14 billion years, word didn't leak
'til they're appropriate to Mankind's age.
Ten miracles, the text enumerates
that scientists are helpless to explain.
The manna, talking ass, or Korach's fate...
the best logicians spend their ink in vain.
Balaam's ass kept exalted company;
Jews hate exceptions to causality.