This is going put me in hot water (if the moderators even allow it through). Why do we have to listen to Rav Ovadia”s words? if you are his follower, so be it. I find his words in general very disturbing (he called Rav Amsallem a rosho, he calls Rav Stav an apikorus)
allowed half. The answer to you is there is a difference between a disagreement with the gadol hador of sephardic jewry, and saying “oy l’mi shelamdo torah”.