English: Rav Yosef cites the teaching that the altar was not built over underground chambers. He derives its required dimensions from the comparison “this is the House of the Lord… and this is the altar,” just as the House was sixty cubits, so too the altar was sixty cubits in the relevant dimension.
On the daf / in context: See the cited source for the full section.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse.
What Is Learned
The cited discussion derives a sixty-cubit dimension for the altar and rejects placing it over chambers.