Likutay Moharan - Torah-teaching 247

247 - "Teiku" - it is the aspect of lacking repair

It is brought in the holy Zohar (Raaya Mehemna Tzav 27b): that “teiku” [Talmudic acronym for unresolved questions, meaning "let it stand"] that is said in the Shas [Talmud] is the aspect of lacking repair, that is, that the nun of tikkun [repair or rectification; straight nun symbolizing completeness] is lacking and it becomes teiku [removing the straight nun from "tikkun" leaves "teiku"]. And know that this straight nun, when it is lacking from the tikkun and it becomes the aspect of teiku as above, then it is lowered and bent [becomes the final nun, which is bent], and from this is made the aspect of kinot [lamentations; rearranging letters of "tikkun" with bent nun] that is the letters of tikkun, only that the nun is bent as above. He will redeem us and the kinot will be turned to tikkun, and the teiku the above will be repaired.