The Quincessential Prayer for Freedom

According to Wikipedia, North African Jews have quinces (usually as a jelly) on Rosh Hashana night.  Quinces are חבושים in Hebrew.  Before eating them, they would recite:

יהי רצון מלפניך ה' אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו שתהא שנה זו טובה ומתוקה ושיצאו חבושי עמך ישראל ממאסרם לאורה

May it be Your will, Hashem, our G-d and the G-d of our fathers, that this year be good and sweet, and those of Your nation Israel who are imprisoned should leave their incarceration to go toward the light.

Even if you don't have this custom or don't have a quince, it doesn't hurt to say it and have in mind:

• Jonathan Pollard (in the U.S.)
• Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin (in the U.S.)
• Yanky Ostreicher (in Bolivia)
• Alan Gross (in Cuba)
• Warren Weinstein (in Pakistan)

among all חבושי עמך ישראל.

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Other interesting Rosh Hashana links (all in Hebrew):

• Rav Ovadia Yosef's New Year Prayer (h/t Rafi)
• Rav Yonah Metzger's New Year Prayer (very Iran-specific)
• Rav Bentzion Mutzafi's Kavanot for Rosh Hashana Amida (Sephardic Nusah, regular and Musaf, also includes Seder Leil Rosh Hashana and Tekiot)
• Rav Shlomo Yitzchak Bixenspanner of Toronto's Kuntras "Teka Beshofar" (on Hilchot Shofar)
• Rav Benayahu Shmueli's weekly newsletter has a lot of Rosh Hashana-related Divrei Torah (and is even a third source for the Devar Torah mentioned yesterday on page 6)

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Wishing everyone:

Shana Tova
Tizku Leshanim Rabot, Ne'imot VeTovot
Ketiva Vahatima Tova

As we say in Ahot Ketana:

Let the year end with its curses and may the new year begin with its blessings.