Judaism’s Annual Pilgrimage Feasts Judaism was an agricultural culture that cherished its abundant crops. A writing called The Letter of Aristeas describes the zeal of Jewish farmers: … their land is thickly covered with large numbers of olive trees and cereal crops … vines and abundant honey. As for the fruit trees and date palms which they have, no number can be given. They have many flocks and herds of various kinds.… So they perceived the areas that need to be populated and designed