Commentary for Yoma 32:4

ואי סלקא דעתיך מדות ר' יהודה היא מזבח באמצע עזרה מי משכחת ליה הא רובא דמזבח בדרום קאי

eight cubits; the place of the rings twenty-four; from the rings to the tables four; from the tabl to the columns four;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Low columns placed in the ground, to which iron hooks were attached, on which the animals were hung for flaying.');">⁴</span> from the columns to the walls of the Temple Court eight cubits and the remainder lay between the ramp and the wall and the place of the columns.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mid. V, 1, 2.');">⁵</span> Now if you were to consider that the authority for Middoth is R'Judah, how is it possible that the altar be in the centre of the Temple, since the bigger part of the altar lies towards the south?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The figures given here as from south to north make a total of a hundred and ten cubits. To this must be added the space of four cubits occupied by the table, which is not mentioned here, then leaving a remainder of twenty-one cubits which lay equally between the ramp and the wall and the place of columns. This allows for ten and a half cubits for the space between the ramp (which was on the south of the altar) and the southern wall of the court. Deducting this from sixty-seven and a half cubits which was half the breadth of the court from south to north, we are left with fifty-seven cubits within which lay the ramp, thirty cubits in length, and twenty-seven out of the thirty-cubits of the altar proper, with the result that the larger part of the altar lay in the southern half of the court. V. Rashi.]');">⁶</span>

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